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Marple and Hercule Poirot, Christie had a longtime fascination with archaeology that showed up in novels set in the Mideast, including "Death on the Nile" and "Murder in Mesopotamia."Ĭhristie's non-fiction book "Come Tell Me How You Live," about a series of digs in Syria in the 1940s, is testament to her love for adventure, travel and the ancient sites of civilization.
Her role in the 1950s was to go on these digs with her husband and help him with the photography and dealings with the local labor force," he said.įamed for her detective characters Mrs. Her role, and she was quite old-fashioned about this. To her it was just as important as writing. And Christie, then in her 60s, was there to document his work, in photo and film.Įvery winter, according to her grandson Mathew Prichard, "they disappeared into Iraq or Syria and returned in May or June. Mallowan built his career on digs in the 1950s in Nimrud, the remains of the ancient Assyrian city that survived 3,000 years only to be blown into rubble by Daesh conquerors last year. But Christie set aside her career for months each year to accompany Mallowan into the field.
The British mystery writer's second husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist - respected in his field, but with nowhere near the renown of his older wife. She captured the archaeological dig on celluloid and Kodak film, developing the prints in water painstakingly filtered from the nearby Tigris River.Īnd every day, after she balanced the books and arranged for the next day's meals, Agatha Christie sat down to write. Her diligence and face cream cleaned Nimrud's most famous ivory.