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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, 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 .
2 de mai. de 2024 · Sir Max Mallowan was a British archaeologist who made major contributions as an excavator and educator. After receiving a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he began his long career as a field archaeologist. His excavations were carried out in the Near East, at first as assistant to Sir.
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Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE (6 de maio de 1904 - 19 de agosto de 1978) foi um proeminente arqueólogo britânico, especializado em história do antigo Oriente Médio. Ele foi o segundo marido de Agatha Christie .
13 de nov. de 2020 · Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie. Born as Edgar Mallowan in Wandsworth on 6 May 1904, he was educated at Lancing College (where he was a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh), and studied classics at New College ...
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- May 6, 1904
- Wandsworth, London, England (United Kingdom)
- August 19, 1978
Sir Max Mallowan died at his old home in Greenway in Devon on 19 August 1978 at the age of 74. He was a Founder Member of the British Institute of Persian Studies and had been President of
In this short interview, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan talks about how he first met Agatha Christie on his dig at the Ur of the Chaldees in Iraq.
Sir Max Mallowan was the first Director of the BSAI. In the 1940s and 50s, Sir Max, and his wife, the crime writer Dame Agatha Christie, led excavations at the Assyrian capital of Nimrud. Mallowan’s team brought to light city walls, private residences, administrative buildings, cuneiform tablets and thousands of ivories.
