![]() ![]() He married a fellow archaeologist, Barbara Parker in 1977. Mallowan then took up a research fellowship at Oxford (1962-71) appointed CBE (1960) knighted (1968). ![]() He was Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology in London University (1947-61), and directed excavations at Nimrud (1949-58). During the Second World War Mallowan worked in Air Force intelligence. History Magazine Agatha Christie's adventurous 'second act' plays out in Mesopotamia After a devastating divorce, the crime novelist took a trip to Baghdad in 1928 and lost her heartto the. Following a survey of the Khabur headwaters (1934), Mallowan also directed excavations at Chagar Bazar (1934-37) and Tell Brak (1937-39) in the Khabur basin. In 1933 he conducted his first independent dig at a Halaf period site, Arpachiyah. Mallowan's supervision of a deep excavation here provided the foundations for understanding the prehistory of north Mesopotamia. I married an archaeologist because the older I. Campbell-Thompson's (q.v.) excavations at Nineveh. There, she met archaeologist Max Mallowan who soon proposed to her. After gaining his BA in Classics at Oxford, he joined Leonard Woolley (q.v.) as general field assistant at Ur (1925-30) and where he met his first wife, Agatha Christie (1890-1976) and to whom he was married on 11/9/30. ![]()
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