The aims of this project are to create a scientific database, including all the objects which come from the Karnak Cachette; to set up photographic documentation concerning the Karnak Cachette, by numbering archives in the current collections and taking additional photographs; to describe each object and give the museographical, epigraphical, prosopographical data and complete bibliography in relation to it and to make the database available on the web.

The current database assembles all available Early Dynastic inscriptions, covering the first attestations of writing discovered in tomb U-j (Naqada IIIA1, ca. 3250 BC) until the earliest known continuous written text in the reign of Netjerikhet, more commonly known as Djoser (ca. 2700 BC).

In the 1970s and 1980s an International Photographic Mission initiated and sponsored by the Association Internationale de Papyrologues and UNESCO made slides and photographs of the several thousand published Greek papyri held in the Cairo Museum. The International Photographic Archive of Papyri (IPAP) consists of about 6000 slides and large format negatives, in equal proportions, held at Oxford, Brussels, Cologne, Heidelberg and Copenhagen. These images are now available via the website http://ipap.csad.ox.ac.uk/index.shtml.

The 'Papyrus Portal' is a project that aims to provide the user with both the opportunity of an efficient and effective search of all digitized and electronically catalogued papyrus collections in Germany and an unified presentation of the search results with the most important information on the particular papyrus.

The Digital Karnak Project aims to make the site of Karnak more accessible to students and instructors in the English-speaking world. The website features a geographically-referenced "time-map" highlighting the areas of the temple under construction during the reign of each Egyptian king, thematic videos of a 3D Virtual Reality model of the temple along with corresponding instructional texts, individual descriptions of each temple building recreated on the Virtual Reality model and a fully interactive Google Earth version of the model.

There are currently 5,168 records online on the website of the museum and this will continue to grow over time.

The collections of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum are now accessible through an online database.