Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua' has mentioned 'Ruins' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| The first European visitor to publish an account of Quiriguxc3xa1 was English architect and artist Frederick Catherwood, who reached the ruins in 1840. | WIKI |
| The previous landowner, by the surname of Payxc3xa9s, had related the existence of the ruins to his sons and to Carlos Meiney, a Jamaican Englishman resident in Guatemala. | WIKI |
| The elder Payxc3xa9s had recently died and passed the land to his sons and, since neither Meiney nor Payxc3xa9s' sons had visited the land containing the ruins, they invited John Lloyd Stephens and Catherwood to join them on their first trip to the site. | WIKI |
| [65] Due to adverse conditions he was only able to stay a short time at the ruins, but made drawings of two of the stelae, which were published with a short account of Catherwood's visit in John Lloyd Stephens's book Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan in 1841. | WIKI |
| [66] A longer account of the ruins was made in 1854 by Dr. Karl Scherzer. | WIKI |
| Explorer and archaeologist Alfred Maudslay visited Quiriguxc3xa1 for three days in 1881; they were the first pre-Columbian ruins that he saw and they were sufficiently impressive to inspire him to take up a permanent interest in Central American archaeology. | WIKI |
| "[71] Quiriguxc3xa1 was among the first Maya archaeological sites to be studied intensively, although little restoration was carried out and the ruins once again became overgrown with jungle. | WIKI |
| Although Quirigua has retained ruins and vestiges of dwellings rangingxc2xa0 between AD 200 and AD 900, most of the monuments that ensure Quirigua its world-wide reknown date from the 8th century, the period during which the city was entirely remodelled in accordance with its function as royal residence and administrative centre. | UNESCO |