Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE, FBA, FSA (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the Ancient Near East. Having studied classics at Oxford University, he trained in archaeology under Leonard Woolley at Ur and under Reginald Campbell Thompson at Nineveh. He then led a number of archaeological expeditions sponsored by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. He was the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie, having met during the excavation at Ur in 1930. He served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War, and then entered academia. He was Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the University of London (1947–1962) and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (1962–1971).
Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE, FBA, FSA (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the Ancient...
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective...
every time." Archaeologist Sir MaxMallowan initially appeared to have a civil relationship with Katharine. In 1926, Mallowan helped build an extension to...
author's visit to the Royal Cemetery at Ur where she met her husband, Sir MaxMallowan, and other British archaeologists. It was adapted for television in 2002...
the period of residency of Agatha Christie and her second husband Sir MaxMallowan. The house is in private hands, with large gardens that are also private...
British School of Archaeology in Iraq led by the archaeologist MaxMallowan. Mallowan found thousands of ivories, many of which were discovered at the...
around us." The subject of this dedication is Christie's second husband, MaxMallowan (1904–1978) and is one of four books dedicated to him, either singly...
royal tombs. Agatha Christie later married Woolley's young assistant, MaxMallowan. Ur was the burial site of what may have been many Sumerian royals. The...
as a lenient and religiously tolerant overlord." On the other hand, MaxMallowan notes: "Religious toleration was a remarkable feature of Persian rule...
difficult to write. In September 1930, Christie married the archaeologist MaxMallowan. The pair travelled frequently on archaeological expeditions, and she...
Curse of Ishtar, a fictionalized account of how Agatha Christie met MaxMallowan, who later became her second husband. In September 2021, he appeared...
One of Woolley's assistants on the site was the British archaeologist MaxMallowan. A number of royal inscription were found during the Woolley excavations...
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, he played Christie's second husband MaxMallowan. Carvel appeared as Bamatabois in the film Les Misérables, based on the...
I period, was discovered directly below the Shuruppak flood stratum. MaxMallowan wrote that "we know from the Weld Blundell prism [i.e. WB-62] that at...
(Bulgaria, Syria), and even fortification (Spain, Sardinia). Although MaxMallowan used the same name for the circular houses belonging to the Neolithic...
between Anatolia, the Levant and southern Mesopotamia. It was excavated by MaxMallowan in 1937, then regularly by different teams between 1979 and 2011, when...
travelling in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Sir MaxMallowan. The main settings are Jerusalem and Petra. Holidaying in Jerusalem,...
mysterious murders. Lyndsey Marshal as Agatha Christie Jonah Hauer-King as MaxMallowan Stanley Townsend as Sir Constance Bernard Jack Deam as Leonard Woolley...
See How They Run (2022 film) Related Archie Christie (first husband) MaxMallowan (second husband) Ashfield, Torquay (home) Greenway Estate (home) Agatha...
Chagar Bazar was excavated for three seasons by the British archaeologist MaxMallowan, with his wife Agatha Christie, from 1935 to 1937. Many of the artefacts...
Korn; writer Agatha Christie (between 1941 and 1947) and her husband MaxMallowan, art historian Adrian Stokes, the author Nicholas Monsarrat, the archaeologist...
the one wing Asia, and with the other wing Europe. Archaeologist Sir MaxMallowan explains this statement by Herodotus and its connection with the four...
of Nimrud in a campaign of excavation from 1949 to 1963, led by Sir MaxMallowan. It is one of the most well known of the Nimrud ivories. It has also...
Edward Chiera at Yorghan Tepe (Nuzi), and the British archaeologist MaxMallowan at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak. Recent excavations and surveys in progress...