Poets, that is. Today The Guardian features Percy Bysshe Shelley who also sometimes wrote our sort of stuff. Of course this may have been a result of his being married to a science fiction writer. His most famous poem is probably “Ozymandias”, which most definitely has that sensawunda feel.
Of course when archaeologists find a giant sculpted head they normally expect to find a lost city nearby. Which is why some folks from the University of Valencia think they have found a previously unknown Mayan city.