1. Max Mallowan then directed a number of archaeological expeditions sponsored by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.
20 Facts About Max Mallowan
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Max Mallowan was the second husband of Agatha Christie, having met her during the excavation at Ur in 1930.
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Max Mallowan served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War, and then entered academia.
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Max Mallowan was Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the University of London and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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Max Mallowan was educated at Rokeby School, and all-boys preparatory school, and Lancing College, then an all-boys independent boarding school.
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Max Mallowan achieved a Fourth-class honours in Mods in 1923 and third-class honours in Greats in 1925.
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Max Mallowan worked first as an apprentice to Woolley at the archaeological site of Ur, which was thought to be the capital of Mesopotamian civilization.
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Max Mallowan then became a field director for a series of expeditions managed jointly by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.
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Max Mallowan's excavations included the prehistoric village at Tell Arpachiyah, and the sites at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in the Upper Khabur area.
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Max Mallowan was the first to excavate archaeological sites in the valley of the river Balikh, to the west of the Khabur basin.
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Max Mallowan was commissioned as a pilot officer on probation in the Administrative and Special Duties Branch on 11 February 1941, promoted flying officer on 18 August 1941, flight lieutenant on 1 April 1943 and for some time he had the rank of wing commander.
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Max Mallowan resigned his commission on 10 February 1954, but was permitted to retain that rank during retirement.
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Max Mallowan served as director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq from 1947 to 1961.
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Max Mallowan gave an account of his work in his book Twenty-five Years Of Mesopotamian Discovery and his wife Agatha Christie described his work in Syria in her book Come, Tell Me How You Live.
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Max Mallowan served as vice-president of the British Academy from 1961 to 1962.
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Agatha Christie died in 1976; the next year, Max Mallowan married Barbara Hastings Parker, an archaeologist, who had been his epigraphist at Nimrud and Secretary of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.
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Max Mallowan died on 19 August 1978, aged 74, at Greenway House in Devon and was interred alongside his first wife in the churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey in Oxfordshire.
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Max Mallowan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours, and knighted in 1968.
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In 2019, Max Mallowan was played by Jonah Hauer-King for the movie Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar.
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In 2022, Max Mallowan was played by Lucian Msamati in the British-American movie See How They Run.