This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. When British archaeologist Max Mallowan investigated the neo-Assyrian site of Nimrud in northern Iraq, he got help from ...

After Christie died, at age 85, the estate passed to Hicks and her husband. Shortly before their own deaths in 2004 and 2005, respectively, the couple donated the property to Britain’s National ...

Agatha Christie’s second husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist, but her contributions to his work were far more substantial than just this glib one-liner. Christie was a major financial ...