King Faisal II, Prince ‘Abd al-Ilah, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Said were killed during the uprising. Max directed the excavation until the 1958 revolution in Iraq when Hashemite King Faisal II was assassinated. The 14 July Revolution, also known as the 1958 Iraqi coup d’état, took place on 14 July 1958 in Iraq, and resulted in the overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy which had been established by King Faisal I in 1921 under the auspices of the British. Layard), which he published in Nimrud and its Remains. Nimrud is where Max’s main work was based. In 1947, he also became director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq (1947–1961) and directed the resumption of its work at Nimrud (previously excavated by A. Nimrud in Iraq is where Agatha and Max spent every spring from 1949 to 1959. In 1862 Archie Christie died, and it is during the funeral that Rosalind first meets her half-brother.
