Howard Middleton Jones Bio

Howard is a retired archaeologist specialising in Egyptian Coptic heritage.

Educated at Swansea University, Wales, (Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology) and Oxford University England, (archaeology).

Howard is the founder (2009) and director of the UK Coptic Research and Resource Centre, he was a corporate member of the Institute of Archaeologists and member of the International Association for Coptic Studies (AICS)

In 1999 Howard set up the archaeology Higher Education Certificate programme at the Department of Adult Continuing Education, Swansea University, Wales, and in 2008 set up the Coptic Studies programme for the part time degree scheme at the same institute.

In 2004, Howard was instrumental in setting up modules for the first online ‘e-learning’ off campus courses via the Adult Continuing Education department at Swansea University. He continues to maintain and promote the Coptic Studies programme.

With over 30 years’ experience of visiting Egypt, Howard has built up a useful and reliable network of contacts, not only within the field of Egyptology, but in recent years excellent contacts within the field of Coptology, including many Coptic Church senior members. He also attends regular Coptic conferences and symposiums presenting various Coptic related research papers.

Howard is also a regular contributor to the series volumes of  ‘Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt’ AUC press, and a founder member and archaeological adviser for the Archaeological Rescue Foundation.inc, a non profit organisation.

Publications:

1982 and 1993. ‘Journey Through Gower’. The history, archaeology, flora and fauna of the Gower Peninsula, the first area in Great Britain to be designated An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)

1995. From Flint to Fortress.  Video on the history and archaeology of the Gower Peninsula

1998 The Akhmim (Egypt) and Gower Database; Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology: Proceedings of the 26th Conference, Barcelona, March 1998

2001 and 2002 Giza Genesis, the Best Kept Secrets Two volumes; The connection of the book of Genesis and the layout of the Giza Pyramid Necropolis Egypt. Volume 2 ‘The Sphinx Revealed’

2012 The Coptic Multi-Media Database Project. In Coptic Culture, Past Present and Future. Ed. Mariam Ayad, Oxbow Books 2012.

2020. El Antikkhana: 1835-2020: The Egyptian Museum – 185 years in the Making. The history and background of the old Egyptian museum in Cairo from its very beginnings. Amazon Publication

2024 ‘Life On The Nile’.  Illustrated book on the activities and lives of people living on and around the banks of the river Nile. Amazon publication.

Journals and Research Papers.

Howard is also a contributor to the volumes of Christianity and Monasticism in Egypt, Published every two years by the American University Press in Cairo (AUC) Editors Gawdat Gabra and Hany N Takla.

The Coptic Monasteries Multi-Database Project. Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt, Vol. 2, Nag Hammadi and Esna. AUC Press 2010

Towards the documentation of the Monastery of the Holy Virgin at Al-Muharraq, Asyut

Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt, Al Minya and Asyut. AUC Press 2015

The Digital 3D Virtual Reconstruction of the Monastic Church at Qubbat el-Hawa Aswan

Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt, Aswan and Nubia, AUC Press 2016

Photographic contributions to Christian Aswan in the Modern era and the History of the Cathedral, Metropolitan Bishop Hedra. Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt, Aswan and Nubia. AUC Press 2016.

Egyptological Magazine

An Introduction to the Coptic Period in Egypt. The Early Christian Era, 1st Century AD – 7th Century AD. Edition 3 2011

Early Coptic Church and Monastic Architecture. The Link with the Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Past. Edition 4 2012

Coptic Heritage in Egypt. Qubbat el-Hawa. Edition 7 2012

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