Edited by Jessica Cox, Caleb R. Hamilton, Katharine R. L. McLardy, Amy J. Pettman and David Stewart Proceedings of a Conference held between 18-20 October 2013 on Approaches to Studying the Ancient Past This volume presents 12 of the papers from the Ancient Cultures at Monash University post-graduate conference (2013) at Monash University, Australia, in the disciplines of archaeology, history, Classics and indigenous studies. The papers showcase research by post-graduates at Monash across a range of ancient disciplines, and as such contains a lot of innovative study. It is an interesting and varied collection of articles on a range of topics from the Classical world and the ancient Near East.