The Life of Max Mallowan: Archaeology and Agatha Christie by Henrietta McCall, British Museum Press, £18.99, ISBN 071411149X
POOR Max Mallowan. One of archaeology’s great diggers and thinkers, he is stuck in the shadow of his famous wife, Agatha Christie. While her novels sell in their millions around the world, few people outside archaeology recall his pioneering work.
That picture is far too simplistic, however. Mallowan began his career in the Middle East in 1926. Working his passage as a seaman on an oil tanker destined for Port Said – funds were short – he travelled to what is now…
