Initiated in January 2013, the Karnak project (CNRS - Labex ARCHIMEDE, ANR-11-LABX-0032-01, Programme « Investissement d’Avenir », USR 3172 - CFEETK / UMR 5140, Équipe ENiM) aims to organize and make available textual documentation from the temples of Karnak.

This work is based on a comprehensive inventory of documents and inscriptions from Karnak collated in the field. Each document is given a unique identifier number (KIU: Karnak Identifiant Unique) after its integration in the database. All the information associated with a particular document or inscription (KIU) will be accessible from a single entry.

Within the project, several indexes provide access to the content of the edited inscriptions (vocabulary, elements of royal titulatures, toponyms, ethnic and places of worship, theonyms, anthroponyms).