Posted by Alan Hakim on December 11, 2001 at 11:41:19 from 212.137.158.161:
The British Museum is showing this exhibition until March 24, 2002. It tells of Agatha's close involvement with the archaelogical digs of her husband Max Mallowan.
Among the items on display is a painting by Dora Altounyan of Agatha in the Dig House at Chagar Bazar in Syria. The caption says that the Mallowans were very friendly with Ernest and Dora, and often visited them.
The exhibition is full of interesting items; not only antiquities found in the digs, but a lot about Agatha's travels and the books she wrote as a direct result of her experiences in the Middle East. There is even an actual Wagon-Lit parked in the museum forecourt, sent over from the current Venice Simplon Orient Express, its first appearance in Britain since it was built in Birmingham in 1929.