Edited by Manfred Bietak, Robert Rollinger, Rahim Shayegan and Willeke Wendrich

This series presents monographs and conference volumes about contemporary archaeological and historical research in Egypt, Nubia and the Levant, from prehistory until the spread of Islam. Altogether, it is a region in which numerous excavations are carried out and where new insights are continuously gained. They deserve to be presented in more detail to international scholarship. This series in its new form was stimulated by the results of the research of the ERC Advanced Grant “The Enigma of the Hyksos” which dealt with the whole region of the Levant and the Nile Delta in the Bronze Age. In the future this series will cover, however, a wider research area which will encompass also Mesopotamia and the Iran. All these regions were in antiquity more intertwined by trade, migration, technology transfer or by cultural interference than previously assumed. In times of increasing local specialisation this series will be a forum for interregional studies. Nubia and North-eastern Africa on the other hand seem to be a subject by itself. Remoter regions with a different cultural background will, however, bring alternative perspectives for the perception of the Ancient Near East.