ARCHAEOLOGIST

Max Mallowan

1904 - 1978

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Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist and academic, specializing in the Ancient Near East. Having studied classics at Oxford University, he was trained for archaeology by Leonard Woolley at Ur and Reginald Campbell Thompson at Nineveh. He then directed a number of archaeological expeditions sponsored by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. He was the second husband of Agatha Christie, having met her during the excavation at Ur in 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Mallowan is the 46th most popular archaeologist (up from 51st in 2019), the 2,172nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,865th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Max Mallowan ranks 51 out of 151. Before him are Meritites I, Neferkare Tereru, Leonard Woolley, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Ernst Curtius, Henri Breuil, Margaret Murray, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, James Henry Breasted, Ami Boué, and Paul-Émile Botta. After him are Colin Renfrew.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Max Mallowan ranks 127. Before him are Joseph Valachi, Ralph Bunche, Tevfik Esenç, Joseph M. Juran, Franz Kutschera, and Aparicio Méndez. After him are Juan José Arévalo, Seán MacBride, Walter Heitler, Berta Karlik, Alexandrina of Balazar, and Frederick Ashton. Among people deceased in 1978, Max Mallowan ranks 100. Before him are Edmundo Suárez, Gunnar Nilsson, Tom Wilson, Emilio Portes Gil, Ángel Bossio, and Jacques Bergier. After him are Joe Davis, Jens Otto Krag, George Maciunas, Mstislav Keldysh, Louis Prima, and Gig Young.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Max Mallowan ranks 2,172 out of 8,785. Before him are David Crystal (1941), Randolph Churchill (1911), Jeremiah Clarke (1674), Walter Bagehot (1826), Eliza Poe (1787), and Lesley-Anne Down (1954). After him are Andrew Smith (1797), Stephen Dillane (1957), Thomas Henderson (1798), Arthur Aikin (1773), Rachel Kempson (1910), and William Allen (1532).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Max Mallowan ranks 10. Before him are George Smith (1840), George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), Flinders Petrie (1853), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Leonard Woolley (1880), and John O. Westwood (1805). After him are Robert Broom (1866), Colin Groves (1942), Alan Gardiner (1879), James Quibell (1867), Dorothy Garrod (1892), and Kathleen Kenyon (1906).

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