Nimrud ivories that followed the death of Sargon II in 705 BC or when Nineveh fell and was destroyed in 612 BC. Mallowan's wife was the famous British crime novelist, Agatha Christie (1890–1976), who was fascinated with archaeology, and who accompanied her husband on the Nimrud excavations. Christie helped photograph and preserve many of the ivories found during the excavations, explaining in her autobiography that she cleaned the ivories using a fine knitting needle, an orange stick and a pot of face cream. The collection of ivories uncovered by Mallowan were divided between Iraq and Britain, where they remained at the British
The Crime of the Congo early history of the Congo Free State Sir Arthur quotes the testimony of many unimpeachable witnesses regarding the brutalities of the 'rubber system' and the coldblooded mutilation and massacre of natives during the past fifteen years". Many academics who have analysed Conan Doyle's life have noted his activism, including his authorship of "The Crime of the Congo". In 2009, Cambridge Scholars Publishing released a reprint of the work, in "Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Crime of the Congo The Crime of the Congo is a 1909 book by British writer and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, about