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Courtesy of the British Museum

Detective novelist Agatha Christie “on holiday” at a dig site in northern Syria in 1935. An ardent history buff and student of human nature, Christie frequently accompanied her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, on his excavations in Mesopotamia. In 1944 she set down a colorful account of their travels together in one her few nonfiction works, Come, Tell Me How You Live.