Max Mallowan

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Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (6 May, 1904 – 19 August, 1978) was a prominent archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and was also (despite his Roman Catholicism) the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie, who was 14 years his senior. He was born in London and studied classics at Oxford. He first worked as an apprentice to Leonard Woolley at the archaeological site of Ur (1925-31), which was thought to be the capital of Mesopotamian civilization. In 1930, he met novelist Agatha Christie, at the Ur site, and later married her.

From 1932 to 1938, Mallowan, while working for the British Museum, excavated on several relatively little known archaeological sites which included Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, and Tell Brak. Mallowan also later excavated in the Near East, mostly at the Nimrud site. From there he went to University of London where he was a Professor of West Asiatic Archaeology (1942-1960). He also served as the director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq from 1947 to 1961.

Mallowan's books include his autobiography, Mallowan’s Memoirs, written in 1977, and Twenty-five Years of Mesopotamian Discovery, written in 1956. His wife Agatha Christie also wrote the book Come, Tell Me How You Live in 1946, an account of his digging in Syria. Mallowan was knighted in London in 1968.

External links

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/mallowan_max.html

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