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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 .
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 ...
Barbara, Lady Mallowan, OBE (née Hastings Parker; 14 July 1908 – 21 November 1993) was an English archaeologist, Assyriologist, and epigraphist who specialised in cylinder seals. [ 1 ] Life and work
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]
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 1916 — 15 April 2005) [5] at Kensington, London, England. [6] They lived in the Greenway Estate until Rosalind's death on 28 October 2004, in Torbay, aged ...
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Bech died from internal injuries including head trauma hours after the attack, his sister said. “Happy new year” was the last text message he sent to a family group chat, at 1:30 a.m.
Christie's second marriage in 1930 was to Max Mallowan, Sir Leonard Woolley's assistant at Ur. [1] In her autobiography, Christie refers to Woolley: "Katharine Woolley, who was to become one of my great friends in the years to come, was an extraordinary character.