Katharine Woolley Mesopotamia" by Agatha Christie; Christie's second marriage in 1930 was to Max Mallowan, Sir Leonard Woolley's assistant at Ur. During World War II, her husband was involved with monitoring Nazi looting of museums, galleries and archives; she assisted with this work. She died of multiple sclerosis on 8 November 1945 in The Dorchester, where she and her husband had been living for several years. Katharine Woolley Katharine Woolley, née Menke (June 1888 – 8 November 1945) was a British archaeologist who worked principally at the Mesopotamian site of Ur. She was married to archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley. She was
Honour killing in Pakistan British woman, Samia Shahid, flew to visit her family in Pakistan under false pretenses; she was told she needed to come immediately because her father was dying. On July 20, 2016 (only six days after arriving in Pakistan), she was found dead - raped and strangled - in Punjab, Pakistan, at the home of Mohammed Shakeel, her former husband. Years earlier, Samia had been forced to marry her cousin, Mohammed Shakeel, in an arranged marriage. Reports say that she divorced Shakeel because he was abusive. In 2014, Samia married Syed Mukhtar Kazam and started a new life with him in