NIKOS
KOKKINOS
Dr. Nikos Kokkinos was born in Egypt. He graduated from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London, specialising in Greco-Roman archaeology of the Near East.
He was awarded a British Academy scholarship for postgraduate studies in Ancient History at the University of Oxford, focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman periods of Syro-Palestine.
His doctoral dissertation, supervised by the internationally renowned Professor Fergus Millar, focused on the Herodian dynasty.
At Oxford, he became a member of Brasenose College, worked at the prestigious Ashmolean Library, and later held the Dorothea Gray Senior Scholarship at St Hugh’s College.
After completing his programme, he continued his research as a lecturer at University College London, where he currently works as a Wingate Scholar and is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
He has participated in numerous excavations in Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey, and has spent considerable time studying the rich collections of museums in London, Paris, Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem. He has lectured and led seminars at universities and academic institutions on both sides of the Atlantic, and has published articles in academic journals and edited volumes on topics including ancient coinage, inscriptions, religion, and chronology.
In addition to The Enigma of Jesus of Galilee (1980), he has published the following books: Centuries of Darkness (1991, with Peter James), published in Greek by AIOLOS as Ages of Darkness (2006), Antonia Augusta (1992 & 2002), and The Herodian Dynasty (1998). He lives in London with his wife and three children.
