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. Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie.īorn as Edgar Mallowan in Wandsworth on, he was educated at Lancing College (where he was a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh), and studied classics at New College, Oxford.
