The Editorial Office of the Cairo Department is in charge of the Department’s publications in various formats and mediates the communication between authors, editors, and publishers. At present, the publication programme encompasses one journal and two series:

Since 1930, the Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo has been published annually, featuring contributions on the archaeology and cultural history of Egypt. Published since 1970, the Archäologische Veröffentlichungen focus on the Cairo Department’s archaeological activities. Additionally, the series Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo was founded in 1975.

Furthermore, in 2020, the Cairo Department initiated the series Materialien und Arbeitsmittel aus Projekten des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, which is published online only. This format aims to make data sets and material collections, including academic theses, accessible in a structured but liberal form in terms of layout and stylistic criteria compared to the corporate standards of DAI print publications. All volumes of this series are available free of charge on iDAI.repo.

The series Abhandlungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo (published since 1958), Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens (published since 1990 in cooperation with the Universität Heidelberg), and Menschen – Reisen – Forschungen (published since 2012) were discontinued in 2005 and 2019/2020 respectively.