biography
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Mallowan, Sir Max (Edgar Lucien)
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pronunciation:
[malohan]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–78)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist, born in London, UK. He studied Classics at Oxford, and was apprenticed to Leonard Woolley at Ur (1925–31), where he met novelist Agatha Christie, whom he married in 1930. He excavated for the British Museum at Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, and Tell Brak (1932–8). As professor of W Asiatic archaeology at London University (1947–60), he excavated in the Near East, principally at Nimrud, with striking results described in detail in Nimrud and its Remains (1970). Agatha Christie's Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946) is an account of his digging in Syria (1934–8), and his own autobiography, Mallowan's Memoirs, appeared in 1977. He was knighted in 1968. |
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