![]() Right now, after almost a year of watching the Islamic State (or ISIS) attack with determination and an extreme agenda to wipe out all history that predates Islam in Syria and Iraq, I am reading Come, Tell Me How You Live with some resignation. She spent many seasons in the field as an assistant cleaning, sorting, labeling, and photographing excavated materials which would eventually go into museum collections such as the British Museum. In the 1930s, Christie accompanied Mallowan on his archaeological excavations in Syria and Iraq. In a short window of time, before drone warfare and 21st-century style terrorism, there were many active archaeology projects uncovering the history of Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where people first began living in cities and where writing was invented more than 5,000 years ago. Wikimedia Public Domain Imageīut, her second autobiography, an easily digestible memoir called Come, Tell Me How You Live is a reminder of just how long Westerners have been involved in the Middle East-and not just as tourists or writers. Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan at Tell-Halaf.
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