Max Mallowan (British archaeologist)

Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history. He was the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie.
Born May 1904 and died August 1978 (aged 74)

Scientific career
  
Fields  Archaeologist
Institutions  University of London and All Souls College, Oxford

Mallowan and Agatha Christie in Tell Halaf northeastern Syria 1930s

He first worked as an apprentice to Leonard Woolley at the archaeological site of Ur (1925–31), which was thought to be the capital of Mesopotamian civilization. It was at the Ur site, in 1930, that he first met Agatha Christie, the famous author, whom he married the same year. In 1932.