Überblick
The institute’s records offer extensive insights into the history of Egyptology. For example, the activities of the missions and researchers working in Egypt are discussed in Borchardt’s regular reports to the "Akademische Kommision zur Herausgabe des Wörterbuches der ägyptischen Sprache". Moreover, further information can be found concerning a variety of social and political issues, such as such as bi- and multinational relations, as well as imperialism. Along with other documents, they present a clear image of the development of Egyptology and its political backdrop.
At present, the corpus has only been organized at the level of dossiers, but not at the level of individual documents. In order to examine the latter, a project to systematically scan all documents started in 2019 in Cairo, and, in 2020, also in Berlin. Simultaneously, the construction of a database for the purposes of further cataloguing has begun, allowing searches according to persons, institutions, and places, in addition to presenting summaries of content. Integration within iDAI archives (using AtoM as online platform) is planned for 2021.