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Ancient bodies that fascinated Agatha The British Museum exhibition opening tomorrow reveals Christie's passion for archaeology and for one archaeologist in particular, writes Zenga Longmore

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20011107
Author:ZENGA LONGMORE

FANS of Agatha Christie may not be aware that the corpses which most excited her imagination were not the bodies discovered in country house libraries, but human remains thousands of years old. A new exhibition that opens at the British Museum tomorrow reveals the Queen of Crime's true passion, amateur archaeology.

It includes artefacts from the excavations Christie attended, photographs she took and two of her home movies, featuring Syria in 1938, and Fifties Iraq, as well as a complete carriage from the Orient Express on the front lawn of the museum.

Christie was already a famous detective ...

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