![]() ![]() Reprinted as Mallowan's Memoirs: Agatha and the Archaeologist. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1977 (hardcover, ISBN 7-7). New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1976 (hardcover, ISBN 0-4) New York: Vintage/Ebury, 1983 (hardcover, ISBN 3-9) New York: HarperCollins, 1999 (paperback, ISBN 0-00-653114-8) Pleasantville, NY: Akadine Press, 2002 (with introduction by David Pryce-Jones paperback, ISBN 1-58579-010-9). Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir. ![]() ![]() ^ Deaths England and Wales 1984-2006 (subscription required).^ "Dame Agatha Christie & Sir Max Mallowan".^ "Agatha Christie helped in uncovering Iraq's ancient Nimrud".^ "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries".^ "Sir Max Mallowan | British archaeologist | Britannica".The life of Max Mallowan: archaeology and Agatha Christie. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq. Ivories in Assyrian Style, Commentary, Catalogue and Plates. Mallowan, Max Davies, Leri Glynne (1970)."VIII: The development of cities: from Al-'Ubaid to the end of Uruk". London: Collins on behalf of The British School of Archaeology in Iraq. Twenty-five years of Mesopotamian discovery (1932-1956). In 2022, Mallowan was portrayed by Lucian Msamati in the British-American film See How They Run. In 2019, Mallowan was portrayed by Jonah Hauer-King in the film Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar. His second wife, Barbara, died in Wallingford in 1993, at the age of 85. He died on 19 August 1978, aged 74, at Greenway House in Devon and was interred alongside his first wife in the churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey in Oxfordshire. He gave the 1969 Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture. Mallowan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours, and knighted in 1968. Mallowan gave an account of his work in Twenty-five Years of Mesopotamian Discovery (1956) and his wife Agatha Christie described his work in Syria in Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946).Īgatha Christie died in 1976 the following year, Mallowan married Barbara Hastings Parker, an archaeologist, who had been his epigraphist at Nimrud and Secretary of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. Layard), which he published in Nimrud and its Remains (2 volumes, 1966). In 1947, he also became director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq (1947–1961) and directed the resumption of its work at Nimrud (previously excavated by A. Īfter the war, in 1947, he was appointed Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the University of London, a position which he held until elected a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1962. He resigned his commission on 10 February 1954, but was permitted to retain that rank in retirement. He was commissioned as a pilot officer on probation in the Administrative and Special Duties Branch on 11 February 1941, promoted flying officer on 18 August 1941, flight lieutenant on 1 April 1943 and at some point he also held the rank of wing commander. įollowing the outbreak of the Second World War he served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in North Africa, being based for part of 1943 at the ancient city of Sabratha in Libya. In December 1933, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA). He was also the first to excavate archaeological sites in the Balikh Valley, to the west of the Khabur basin. His excavations included the prehistoric village at Tell Arpachiyah, and the sites at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in the Upper Khabur area ( Syria). In 1932, after a short time working at Nineveh with Reginald Campbell Thompson, Mallowan became a field director for a series of expeditions jointly run by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. It was at the Ur site, in 1930, that he first met Agatha Christie, the famous author, whom he married the same year. He first worked as an apprentice to Leonard Woolley at the archaeological site of Ur (1925–1930), which was thought to be the capital of Mesopotamian civilization. He was educated at Rokeby School and Lancing College (where he was a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh) and studied classics at New College, Oxford. He was the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie.īorn Edgar Mallowan in Wandsworth on, he was the son of Frederick Mallowan and his wife Marguerite (née Duvivier), whose mother was mezzo-soprano Marthe Duvivier. Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan CBE, FBA, FSA ( – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history. ![]()
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