This new series from Oxbow Books promotes a completely innovative series of studies on ancient societies with special, but by no means exclusive, reference to Egypt. Its main goal is generating interdisciplinary and comparative research as well as making aspects of the ancient world accessible and comprehensible to other disciplines. Founded on the methodologies developed mainly by anthropology and archaeology, the series approaches problems and questions relating to ancient societies from a radically idiosyncratic perspective: scholars from different disciplines are invited to tackle and discuss targeted problems according to their own points of view and methodologies, promoting an holistic approach to sometimes familiar themes more usually tackled on an individual, regional or close chronological basis.