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Mallowan, M. E. L. (Max Edgar Lucien)

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Personal name headingMallowan, M. E. L. (Max Edgar Lucien)
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Variant(s)Mallowan, Max
Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien
Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien, Sir
Associated countryGreat Britain England
Associated placeIraq Syria
Birth date1904-05-06
Death date1978-08-19
Place of birthLondon (England)
Place of deathDevon (England)
Greenway (England)
Field of activityArchaeology Middle East--Antiquities
AffiliationUniversity of London
Profession or occupationArchaeologists College teachers
Found inHis Early Mesopotamia and Iran, 1965: t.p. (M.E.L. Mallowan)
Herrmann, G. Ivories from room SW 37. Fort Shalmaneser, c1986: v. 1, verso t.p. (Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan)
LC data base, 4/15/92 (hdg.: Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien; Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien, Sir; usage: M.E.L. Mallowan; Max Mallowan)
McCall, H. The life of Max Mallowan, 2001: jkt. (Max Mallowan (1904-78))
Britannica academic, 29 January 2016 (Sir Max Mallowan; in full Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (born May 6, 1904, London, England; died August 19, 1978, Greenway House, [near] Galmpton, Devon), British archaeologist who made major contributions as an excavator and educator; his excavations were carried out in the Near East: Iraq and Syria; professor (1947-62) and emeritus professor of western Asiatic archaeology at the University of London; knighted in 1968; married the novelist and playwright Agatha Christie (later Dame Agatha) in 1930; one year after her death in 1976, he married the archaeologist Barbara Parker)
Associated languageeng