Summary
Carved ivories excavated with the help of crime queen Agatha Christie are to go on show for the first time after being bought for Pounds 1.2 million by the British Museum.
The 6,000 treasures were discovered between 1949 and 1963 at Nimrud, now part of northern Iraq, in an excavation led by the murder-mystery writer's then husband, celebrated British archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan.See the full content of this document
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Crime Queen Agatha Made Iraq Discovery
Christie was in the excavation team and is known to have cleaned and preserved some of the objects, reputably usi...
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