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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, specialising in the Ancient Near East. Having studied classics at Oxford University, he trained in archaeology under Leonard Woolley at Ur and under Reginald Campbell Thompson at Nineveh. He then led 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 1,500,493 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Max Mallowan is the 37th most popular archaeologist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 1,532nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,542nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Max Mallowan ranks 37 out of 104. Before him are Neferkare Tereru, Ami Boué, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, George Gaylord Simpson, André Leroi-Gourhan, and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. After him are Yuri Knorozov, Henri Breuil, Ernst Curtius, George Smith, Meritites I, and Hat Hor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Max Mallowan ranks 101. Before him are Heinz Jost, Mihai Antonescu, Jacques Tourneur, Edmund Veesenmayer, Emilio Fernández, and Karl Ernst. After him are Nikolai Berzarin, Arkady Gaidar, Coleman Hawkins, Tadao Takayama, Delmer Daves, and Joseph Valachi. Among people deceased in 1978, Max Mallowan ranks 72. Before him are Pablo Dorado, Lilya Brik, Robert Shaw, Wadie Haddad, Leo Ryan, and José Manuel Moreno. After him are Joe Davis, Pancho Vladigerov, Gaston Julia, Max Decugis, Charles Best, and Salvador de Madariaga.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Max Mallowan ranks 1,532 out of 7,765. Before him are William Paley (1743), John Bowring (1792), Clarke Abel (1780), Ben Cross (1947), Cicely Saunders (1918), and Henry Gray (1827). After him are Ian McDonald (1946), Donald Maclean (1913), Channing Tatum (1980), Lulach (1030), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), and Peter Sutcliffe (1946).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Max Mallowan ranks 7. Before him are Howard Carter (1874), Arthur Evans (1851), George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), Flinders Petrie (1853), Leonard Woolley (1880), and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834). After him are George Smith (1840), Alan Gardiner (1879), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), and E. A. Wallis Budge (1857).

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