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Dr Michael R Jenkins is a graduate of the University of Tasmania. Having completed his Honours degree in Egyptian, Minoan, Mycenaean, Greek and Roman art and architecture he commenced studies for his Ph.D. in ancient art history. His thesis was examined at the University of Western Australia, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the British Museum. Since the awarding of his doctorate in 1992, Dr Jenkins has focused his research in the areas of Ancient Egyptian history, architecture and art.
Dr Jenkins has travelled to Egypt on numerous occasions, including an extensive period of research partly sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities in order to study Ramesses II's 'Battle of Qadesh' reliefs. His current work focuses on the history of Elephantine Island in Upper Egypt and has involved numerous seasons of field work in the Aswan region undertaking investigation of the local Old and Middle Kingdom tombs, the ruins of the ancient provincial capital of Abu (Elephantine), and the many rock carvings of the First Cataract region. He is also undertaking a project concerning the creation of a computer generated reconstruction of the 'lost temple' of Amenhotep III on Elephantine Island in collaboration with graduate students of information technology and systems at the University of Tasmania.
Dr Jenkins has presented occasional lectures and seminars at the University of Tasmania and addressed the International Numismatic Congress (Brussels). He has facilitated workshops and seminars internationally. He has published numerous academic papers in the fields of Egyptology and numismatics in such internationally renowned journals as: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (London); The Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology (Sydney); The Athens Annals of Archaeology (Athens); and The Numismatic Chronicle (London). His work, 'Notes on the Tomb of Setka at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan' (BACE, Vol.11, pp.67f. (2000)), reports the findings of his archaeological investigation of a late-Old Kingdom period tomb and was published with the personal approval of Prof. Gaballa, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (Cairo).
Dr Jenkins is currently: the Tasmanian Qualifications Authority''s Liaison and Development Officer, a Post-doctoral Honorary Research Associate with the School of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania; and the Setting Examiner for Ancient Civilisations. He is a member of the International Association of Egyptologists (Munich), the Rundle Foundation for Egyptian Archaeology and the Friends of the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery.
'Theme and Emphasis in the Coinage of Hadrian and Septimius Severus'
Primitiae: A Journal of Classical Studies 1981 (Australian National University) pp.58f.'The Aeneid Medallion - a Narrative Interpretation'
Numismatic Chronicle Vol. 148 1988 (Royal Numismatic Society) pp.148f.The Euboea Niketerion
Athens Annals of Archaeology 1986 (Published 1990) pp.114f.Mythological Depictions of the Contorniates
Proceedings of the XIth International Numismatic Congress 1992 (Brussels) pp.341f.Notes on a Medallion of Commodus found at Kastelli Kissamou
Athens Annals of Archaeology Vol. XXII 1989 (Published 1994) pp.139f.The Stela of Neferhotep from the Sanctuary of Heqaib in Elephantine Island
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol.82 (1996) pp.199f.Two Christian Period finds on Elephantine Island: An ostrakon of the lector Aurelios Papnouthis and a preliminary report on a newly identified church
The Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology Vol.9 (1998) pp.61f.'Re-tooled Antonine Medallions'
The Celator Vol.13 No.6, (June 1999) pp.13f.Notes on the Tomb of Setka at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan
The Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology Vol. 11 (2000) pp.67f.A Hoard from Elephantine Island
Numismatic Chronicle Vol. 106 (2000) (Royal Numismatic Society); pp.274f.
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