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Also Known As Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan
Born May 6, 1904 • London • England
Died August 19, 1978 (aged 74) • England
Notable Family Members spouse Agatha Christie
Li Chi
Chinese archaeologist
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
John Garstang
British archaeologist
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
Leakey, Mary
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
Dame Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist
Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist
Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
British archaeologist
David George Hogarth
David George Hogarth
British archaeologist
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
British archaeologist
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Carl Blegen
American archaeologist
Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
E. G. Squier
American archaeologist
Ferdinand Keller
Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian