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
Max Waechter Borough of Richmond in 1900. He helped preserve the view from Richmond across the river by preventing destructive development. He held the post of High Sheriff of Surrey in 1902 and was knighted in the 1902 Birthday Honours. Waechter was buried in Richmond Cemetery. Max Waechter Sir Max Leonard Waechter (3 October 1837 – 3 October 1924) was a businessman, art collector, philanthropist and advocate of a federal Europe. The great-grandson of a Lutheran pastor, Waechter was born in Stettin, then in Germany, and now Szczecin in Poland. He went to England in 1859 and was naturalised in 1865. He