David & Jennifer Elkington

David Elkington is the author of In the Name of the Gods, the highly acclaimed academic thesis on the resonance and acoustical origins of religion. David is primarily an Egyptologist, specializing in Egypt-Palestinian links that have inevitably drawn him into the field of Biblical studies.

Between 1987 and 1990 he trained under Julia Samson, curator of the Petrie Museum, University of London, specializing in the Amarnan period of Egypt (c. 1500 BC), and also under Prof. Christine el Mahdy at the British School of Egyptology. He has co-hosted academic tours of the major ancient sites of Egypt and has been a member of the Egypt Exploration Society, the Palestine Exploration Fund and well as a fundraising Vice-Chairman of the Oxford China Scholarship Fund Working Group. He has lectured at universities all over the world and written many papers on ancient history and linguistics.

Jennifer Elkington spent two years working in the contemporary art market in Paris before being enticed into the world of classical music, producing concerts and operas as well as managing a number of internationally renowned conductors, opera singers and piano virtuosos. She then worked as a PR consultant in an agency for a year before starting up her own business, Jennifer Solignac Associates, specialising in Public Relations, Marketing and Event Management, representing clients in interior design, travel, property, consumer goods with a particular interest in publishing. Having developed an impressive list, Jennifer focused almost exclusively on author profiles, primarily dedicated to the subjects of ancient history and politics, out of personal interest.

Upon meeting David in 2006 and stumbling across the Jordanian Codices, she closed down her business in order to work exclusively with David to co-write the adventure that had taken them from the initial discovery of the artefacts to their current position in working to recover the collection intact for the benefit of a potentially fascinated international audience.