ARCHAEOLOGIST

Max Mallowan

1904 - 1978

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Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist and academic, specializing in the Ancient Near East. Having studied classics at Oxford University, he was trained for archaeology by Leonard Woolley at Ur and Reginald Campbell Thompson at Nineveh. He then directed a number of archaeological expeditions sponsored by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Mallowan has received more than 1,631,979 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Max Mallowan is the 51st most popular archaeologist (down from 37th in 2019), the 1,865th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,527th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Max Mallowan ranks 51 out of 151. Before him are Henri Breuil, Margaret Murray, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, James Henry Breasted, Ami Boué, and Paul-Émile Botta. After him are Colin Renfrew, Hormuzd Rassam, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Max von Oppenheim, and Heinrich Karl Brugsch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Max Mallowan ranks 125. Before him are István Horthy, Miguel Capuccini, Tevfik Esenç, Franz Kutschera, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Lidia Zamenhof. After him are Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Joseph Valachi, Seán MacBride, Edvard Kocbek, Helen Kane, and Berta Karlik. Among people deceased in 1978, Max Mallowan ranks 91. Before him are Viggo Brun, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Edmundo Suárez, Leo Genn, Hans Stuck, and Emilio Portes Gil. After him are George Maciunas, Mstislav Keldysh, Henryk Zygalski, Jacques Brugnon, Joe Davis, and Semyon Krivoshein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Max Mallowan ranks 1,865 out of 8,785. Before him are FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), William of Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg (1184), Mark of Cornwall (480), Roger Fry (1866), Arthur Percival (1887), and John Mandeville (1300). After him are Cyril Jackson (1903), James Blunt (1974), Prasutagus (50), Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390), David Coulthard (1971), and Ken Tyrrell (1924).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Max Mallowan ranks 8. Before him are Arthur Evans (1851), George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), Flinders Petrie (1853), George Smith (1840), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), and Leonard Woolley (1880). After him are Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), Alan Gardiner (1879), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Charles Dawson (1864), and Dorothy Garrod (1892).

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