Gephyra – A Journal for the History and Cultures of the Ancient World aims to provide an open-access scholarly platform for original research on the ancient world from the emergence of written sources to the end of Late Antiquity. The journal seeks to publish studies that advance our understanding of antiquity by offering new interpretations of historical, geographical, social, cultural, literary, economic, administrative, and institutional phenomena, grounded in the critical use of primary source material. While the journal's principal orientation is text-based, it remains open to complementary approaches that contribute meaningfully to this broader scholarly inquiry.
 

The scope of Gephyra encompasses all fields of research related to the ancient world, with particular emphasis on studies that employ, analyse, or reassess epigraphic, philological, numismatic, and papyrological evidence. Contributions may address, but are not limited to, issues of political organisation, social structures, cultural practices, economic systems, literary, religious life, administration, and regional or supra-regional interactions. Manuscripts are expected to engage substantively with one or more of these categories of primary material. A limited portion of each issue may, however, be reserved for purely archaeological contributions that complement the journal's focus.