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Max Mallowan. Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE, FBA, FSA (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist and academic, specializing in the Ancient Near East. Having studied classics at Oxford University, he was trained for archaeology by Leonard Woolley at Ur and Reginald Campbell Thompson at Nineveh.
Rosalind married Major Hubert de Burr Prichard (14 May 1907 – 16 August 1944), son of Colonel Hubert Prichard, in 1940 at Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales. Their only child, Mathew Prichard, was born in 1943. A year later, Rosalind's husband died in the Battle of Normandy. [4] She remarried in 1949, to lawyer Anthony Arthur Hicks (26 September ...
The view that Tell Brak came under the control of Ur III is refused, [note 7] [100] and evidence exists for a Hurrian rebuilding of Naram-Sin's palace, erroneously attributed by Max Mallowan to Ur-Nammu of Ur. [101] Period N saw a reduction in the city's size, with public buildings being abandoned, and the lower town evacuated. [102]
The 2nd millennium BC occupation was restricted to the northern (5 hectare) mound. Chagar Bazar was excavated for three seasons by the British archaeologist Max Mallowan, with his wife Agatha Christie, from 1935 to 1937. [1] [2] [3] Many of the artefacts discovered were brought to the British Museum.
Mona Lisa of Nimrud. Mona Lisa of Nimrud refers to a carved ivory piece of art discovered in the city of Nimrud in a campaign of excavation from 1949 to 1963, led by Sir Max Mallowan. [1] It is one of the most well known of the Nimrud ivories. It has also been known as the “Lady of the Well.”.
Come, Tell Me How You Live is a short book of autobiography and travel literature by crime writer Agatha Christie.It is one of only two books she wrote and had published under both of her married names of "Christie" and "Mallowan" (the other being Star Over Bethlehem and other stories) and was first published in the UK in November 1946 by William Collins and Sons and in the same year in the US ...
Mallowan's wife was the famous British crime novelist, Agatha Christie (1890–1976), who was fascinated with archaeology, and who accompanied her husband on the Nimrud excavations. [15] Christie helped photograph and preserve many of the ivories found during the excavations, explaining in her autobiography that she cleaned the ivories using a ...
Appointment with Death. Appointment with Death is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 May 1938 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. [2][3] The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) [4] and the US edition at $2.00.