When I told my students about the mysterious dissapereance of Agatha Christie in the twenties I mentioned that I have something in common with her. Apart from our outstading use of the English language, both have an archaelogist as a husband.
These days Agatha Christie is in the news because the Bristish Museum has bought some ivory pieces that she and her husband found in Siria. She enjoyed a lot being in the archaelogical sites and she even worked in the excavations. These ivory pieces that are going to be exhibited were cleaned by her using her cosmetic creams. I don't know if the modern archaelogists would approve of her methods but it is true that she did her best to become one of the most remarkable writers of her time and a good amateur archaeologist.
This is one of the pieces of the collection and there are some more. Well, she wrote about crimes, but she knew how to find art too.
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