Desperate to escape she travelled to Ur and made the acquaintance of the archaeological expedition's leader, Leonard Woolley (1880–1960), and his wife, Katharine (1888–1945). On the journey, she found herself in the company of a tedious Englishwoman who was determined to take Christie "under her wing", although that was the last thing she wanted.
Entranced by the thought of such a journey, she changed her tickets at Thomas Cook's and set off for the orient. This was something that Christie had been reading with an avid interest in the Illustrated London News. The Howes also mentioned that not far from Baghdad, an archaeological expedition was uncovering the remains of the ancient city of Ur. The Howes awakened an interest in Christie to visit Baghdad, especially when the Howes pointed out that a part of the journey could be made by the famed Orient Express. However, two days before her departure, she was at a dinner party in London where she met a young naval officer Commander Howe and his wife, who had just returned from his being stationed in the Persian Gulf.
In 1928, after Christie divorced her husband Archie, she planned a holiday to the West Indies and Jamaica, to get away and "seek sunshine", as she put it. Meeting with and marriage to Agatha Christie His maternal grandmother was the French operatic mezzo-soprano Marthe Duvivier.
Max joined the excavation some three years later. The British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley was excavating Ur on behalf of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania from 1922. He was educated at Rokeby School and Lancing College and studied classics at New College, Oxford.
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