She also wrote a humorous book called Come Tell Me How You Live, which detailed life on an archaeological dig, and Death Comes in the End, which was set in Mesopotamia in 3000 BC. Her experiences on the train inspired the Poirot novel Murder on the Orient Express, and she researched many of her most famous books while hunting for Urkesh, including Death on the Nile and Murder in Mesopotamia, in which Poirot solves a murder on an archaeological expedition. Christie spent her honeymoon in 1930 on board the Orient Express and continued to use trains to travel to archaeological digs in the following years. And this other life inspired some of her booksĪ. And what does it give us An exhibition about Agatha Christie. Jonathan Jones in the Guardian is one such: 'The British Museum inspired some of Keats' and Shelley's most famous poetry. There are some who feel that using the Christie element to get people to go to an archaeological exhibition at the British Museum is, at best, a bit tacky. Ironically, Christie and Mallowan had visited the spot and dug there for two days before giving up.Ī. It wasn't until 1996 that Urkesh was located, in north-eastern Syria near the modern city of Tel Mozan, after a farmer stumbled across relics from the site and tried to sell them on the black market. They scoured the Middle East for the city, conducting many digs, and along the way they discovered many artefacts which they sent to the British Museum.Ī. A single reference to Urkesh appears in the Bible and another was inscribed in a 4,000-year-old clay tablet that once belonged to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenmhet IV. When the couple began to look for its remains in the 1930s, all they had to go on were footnotes and folklore. The big mystery that the couple spent many years trying to solve was the site of the lost city of Urkesh, once the centre of the Syrian kingdom of the Hurrians, which flourished around 2300 BC but disappeared almost without trace.
Other exhibits include personal memorabilia and souvenirs of travel, ranging from first editions of those novels with an Oriental setting to a sleeping compartment from the Orient Express, from a 1930s hypodermic syringe to a first millennium ivory of a man being mauled to death.Ī. Important objects from these sites in the Museum's collections are combined with archives, photographs, and films made by Agatha Christie herself. Archaeological finds from the sites on which Christie worked with her husband at Ur, Nineveh and Nimrud. The curator of the exhibition said the aim of the show was to demonstrate how much Christie had contributed to archaeology.Ī.
Because the British Museum is running an exhibition entitled Agatha Christie: An Archaeology Mystery in Mesopotamia. Christie's second husband was the celebrated British archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, and she accompanied him on digs, particularly to Iraq, between 19.Ī.
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