Ken Dark

Kenneth Rainsbury Dark (born in Brixton, London) is a British archaeologist who specializes on 1st millennium AD Europe and the Middle East, archaeological theory and method, and on the relationship between the study of the past and contemporary global political, cultural and economic issues.[1]

Biography

He received a BA in archaeology from the University of York[2] and after taking his PhD in archaeology and history at the University of Cambridge was attached to Cambridge, Oxford, Reading and King's College London,[3][4] before returning to the University of Cambridge,[5] where he is currently based at St. Edmund's College.[6] [7] He is also a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.[8] At the University of Reading he became Professor of Archaeology and History and was director of the Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies.[9][10]

He holds honorary professorships from several European and American universities,[11][12] has written 15 books and many academic articles [13] [14]and has directed and co-directed excavations and survey projects, both in Britain - including at Tintagel in Cornwall [15][16]and at St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury in Kent[17] [18][19][20]- and the Middle East, including in Istanbul (Turkey) – where he co-directed an archaeological study of the Byzantine church of Hagia Sophia and its environs[21][22][23] – and in and around Nazareth (Israel) and on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.[24][25][26]

He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Historical Society,the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, the only person ever to be elected to all of these learned societies.[27][28]

Works

Selected bibliography

  • Dark, Ken (2023). Archaeology of Jesus' Nazareth. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192865397.
  • Dark, Ken; Kostenec, Jan (2023). Hagia Sophia in Context: An Archaeological Re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781789259872.
  • Dark, Ken; Özgümüş, Ferudun (2022). Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781789258066.
  • Dark, Ken (2021). The Sisters of Nazareth Convent: a Roman-period, Byzantine and Crusader site in central Nazareth. Routledge. ISBN 9780367542191.
  • Dark, Ken (2021). Roman-period and Byzantine Nazareth and its Hinterland. Routledge. ISBN 9780367408237.
  • Dark, Ken (2018). The Waves of Time: Long-term Change and International Relations. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781474288309.
  • Dark, Ken (2001). Byzantine Pottery. Tempus. ISBN 9780752419428.
  • Dark, Ken (2000). Britain and the End of the Roman Empire. Tempus. ISBN 9780752414515.
  • Dark, Ken (1995). Theoretical Archaeology. Duckworth. ISBN 9780715626344.(Chinese and Japanese translations were published in 2004 and 2006)
  • Dark, Ken (1994). Civitas to Kingdom: British Political Continuity 300 - 800. Leicester University Press. ISBN 9780718514655.

Selected academic papers

  • "The earliest English church? The Chapel of St Pancras at St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, reconsidered", Journal of the British Archaeological Association 175, 2022, 13-36
  • "Royal burial in fifth–to seventh–century western Britain and Ireland", Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 150, 2021 (for 2020), 21-40
  • "Returning to the Caves of Mystery: texts, archaeology and the origins of Christian topography and pilgrimage in the Holy Land", Royal Anthropological Institute Henry Myers Lecture, Strata 38, 2020,103-124.
  • "Stones of the saints? Inscribed stones, monasticism and the evangelisation of western and northern Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries", The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 72, 2021, 239-58

References

  1. ^ "Our People". St Edmund's College. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  2. ^ Ashgate (2004). Landscapes of change: rural ... - Google Books. Ashgate. ISBN 9781840146172. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  3. ^ London, King's College. "Ken Dark". King's College London. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  4. ^ "Professor Kenneth Dark | Department of Archaeology". www.arch.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
  5. ^ "Our People". St Edmund's College. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  6. ^ "Professor Ken Dark". St Edmund's College. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  7. ^ "Professor Kenneth Dark | Department of Archaeology". www.arch.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
  8. ^ "Professor Kenneth Dark | Department of Archaeology". www.arch.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
  9. ^ "Ken Dark". The Conversation. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  10. ^ "Professor Kenneth Dark | Department of Archaeology". www.arch.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
  11. ^ "Professor Ken Dark | Profile". www.cruiseshipenrichment.net. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  12. ^ "Our People". St Edmund's College. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  13. ^ "Our People". St Edmund's College. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  14. ^ "Professor Kenneth Dark | Department of Archaeology". www.arch.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
  15. ^ reader.exacteditions.com https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/117184/spread/1. Retrieved 2 December 2025. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ "The Battlefields Trust - Events - The Battlefields Trust". www.battlefieldstrust.com. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  17. ^ "Mission to England: Reinvestigating the Origins of St Augustine's Abbey". Kent Archaeological Society. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  18. ^ Dark, Ken (31 December 2022). "The Earliest English Church? A Reconsideration of the Chapel of St Pancras at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury". Journal of the British Archaeological Association. 175 (1): 13–36. doi:10.1080/00681288.2022.2033019. ISSN 0068-1288.
  19. ^ "New research identifies England's oldest surviving church". The Independent. 14 September 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  20. ^ "Archaeologists identify first purpose-built place of Christian worship". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  21. ^ "Revealed: The long lost secrets of the ancient world's second Rome". The Independent. 5 January 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  22. ^ "Hagia Sophia in Context". Oxbow Books. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  23. ^ Owen Jarus (29 April 2019). "Long-Lost Baptistery for Emperors Possibly Discovered at the Largest Cathedral in the Ancient World". Live Science. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  24. ^ Jarus, Owen (2020). "Biblical story of Jesus possibly explained by excavations in his hometown of Nazareth". livescience.com. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  25. ^ "Archaeology of Jesus' Nazareth by Ken Dark". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  26. ^ "Our People". St Edmund's College. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  27. ^ "Ken Dark". The Conversation. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  28. ^ "Early Christian Archaeology of Britain". Retrieved 27 November 2025.

Other sources

  • Ken Dark: Nazareth Archaeology Project 2007. Field Work, Travel, and Research Reports: Byzantium. [1]
  • Ken Dark. Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other fields (Thomson Gale: 2008)
  • "Professor Ken Dark -The Conversation [2]
  • "Professor Ken Dark' [3]
  • "Professor Ken Dark" [4]
  • "Professor Ken Dark" [5]
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