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he discovered Catalhoyuk, brought out loads of antiquities, but then gave a magazine interview in which he said a mysterious woman on a train persuaded him to look at her collection: he did detailed drawings of everything (but no photos) and published it, but nobody's ever seen them and nobody could find the woman. The Turks believed just enough of it to suspect he'd been smuggling the things out himself (it appeared some of his assistants had been doing this) and trying to validate them, and refused him permission to excavate any further.
Then he published an odd book comparing wall drawings he'd found to modern kilim patterns, claiming they showed persisting belief in the mother goddess for 7000 years; but again nobody seems to have seen the drawings.
All very strange (but interesting). It completely destroyed his reputation, and I for one had never heard of him (James Mellaart, I think his name was). So he retired to insalubrious Finsbury Park.