Every Featured Site page on the archive corresponds to a working editorial file. Subscribers also have access to monograph reprints, season-report translations, an indexed bibliography of foreign-mission publications since 2011, and a small set of editorial services on request. The full inventory is laid out below by category, with current pricing and access notes.
Each site file carries a hero photograph, a dated last-verified line, a five-paragraph editorial introduction, an "On the ground" section with current ticket prices and Arabic signage notes, a bibliography of the published season reports we drew from, and a public change log. Seven of the files have their own page in the top navigation; the remaining five appear here.
Thirty-nine tombs of the nomarchs of the Oryx nome. Four routinely open: Khnumhotep II, Amenemhat, Khnumhotep I, Baqet III. Ticket office at the base of the cliff. Last verified March 2026.
Read the fileTomb of Petosiris, sacred animal catacombs, the boundary stela of Akhetaten's western limit. Two visitor circuits; the catacombs require a permit through Mallawi.
Read the fileAncient Khemenu and Hermopolis Magna. The colossal baboons of Thoth, the Ptolemaic temple precinct and the Christian basilica all on a single tell. Open daily 09:00–16:00.
Read the fileSix painted rock-cut tombs of the nomarchs of the 14th Upper Egyptian nome. Access restricted; prior arrangement with the Asyut inspectorate is essential. Three tombs accessible in 2026.
Read the fileAkhenaten's short-lived capital. Northern boundary stelae, the workmen's village, the noble tombs (Meryra, Ahmose, Panehesy). Full visit needs a long day from Minya city.
Read the fileSohag National Museum, Akhmim site store, the White and Red Monasteries, the Coptic textile reserve. The file is organised as four sub-routes that can be combined or visited separately.
Read the fileAssiut University's working museum. The collection drawn from the Asyut and Meir necropoles. Currently undergoing partial redisplay; two galleries open to the public.
Read the fileReopened in 2016 after the 2013 break-in and partial restitution. Strong on Tuna el-Gebel material and Amarna fragments. Page maintained as part of the Tuna el-Gebel file; standalone sub-page on request.
Read on the Tuna pageThe collapsed step pyramid of Snefru, the mastaba field of Nefermaat and Rahotep, and the visit logistics from Beni Suef city. File available to subscribers in advance of public release in 2026.
Request previewThe subscriber archive holds 37 indexed monographs and translations. Library and Field tier subscribers have full PDF access; Readers can request individual chapters through the desk. Below is a representative selection — the full index is searchable inside the subscriber portal.
| Title | Site | Author(s) | Year | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meir Tomb Inscriptions — A Bilingual Edition | Meir | Ahmed El-Sharkawy (ed.) | 2023 | 248 |
| Coptic Textiles in the Akhmim Site Store | Akhmim / Sohag | Mariam Tawfik, Alma Saavedra | 2024 | 184 |
| The Petosiris Temple-Tomb: A Reader | Tuna el-Gebel | Karim Abdelmonem (tr.) | 2022 | 96 |
| Beni Hasan Visitor Access Study 2010-2022 | Beni Hasan | Mohamed Tawfik | 2022 | 72 |
| El-Ashmunein Excavations — Season Reports 2015-2024 (translated) | El-Ashmunein | K. Abdelmonem (tr.) | 2024 | 312 |
| Northern Boundary Stelae at Akhetaten — Revised Readings | Tell el-Amarna | Esther Linwood | 2025 | 118 |
| The White Monastery Standing Walls — A Conservation Survey | Sohag | Yousef Abdelhady | 2024 | 156 |
| Assiut Museum Catalogue — Gallery I Provisional | Assiut Museum | Salwa El-Naggar (ed.) | 2025 | 88 |
| Greco-Roman Animal Cemeteries of Hermopolis | Tuna el-Gebel | Nora Heggenberger | 2023 | 204 |
The archive remains primarily a publishing operation. We do not run tours, we do not broker permits and we do not write itineraries on commission. The four services below are the only ones we offer, all of them aligned with the editorial mission and priced to cover staff time rather than to scale.
A bilingual search of the subscriber bibliography on a defined topic (e.g. all references to wrestling scenes at Beni Hasan published in Arabic between 2010 and now). Delivered as a PDF with notes inside three working days.
An editor reads your draft Middle Egypt itinerary and writes a one-page memo of feasibility notes — drive times, current access, sensible cuts. Memo only, no booking action taken on your behalf.
Translation of an SCA bulletin, exhibition handout, or local academic article (Arabic ⇄ English). Quoted by source-language word count; minimum order one A4 page.
A two-hour written briefing for a university study-abroad programme planning a Middle Egypt segment. Includes a current-conditions snapshot of all twelve sites and the recommended order of visits.
The terms below are set out in our standing engagement letter and are not negotiable for individual orders. Institutional clients with framework agreements may agree variations in writing before the work begins.
The subscriber bibliography indexes everything published in print or in academic-press digital editions on the twelve open sites and the four museum collections, in Arabic, English, French and German, between January 2011 and the present. It is a flat searchable index, not a curated reading list. The point is that a subscriber can in principle find every published reference to a given tomb, find the season report that recorded the most recent inscription reading, and identify which contributor wrote the relevant archive page.
The index is built around four primary keys: the site, the period, the publication language, and the year. Each entry carries the standard bibliographic data (author, title, journal or publisher, year, page range), the language of the source, a one-line content note in English, and a link or call-number to the physical or digital location. Where the archive holds a scanned copy with permission, the call-number resolves to a download for Library and Field subscribers; otherwise the entry points to the catalogue record at the holding library, typically the Egyptian Museum library in Cairo, the German Archaeological Institute library, or the Assiut University Faculty of Arts library.
We deliberately do not include semi-academic blog posts, content-marketing pages from travel agencies, or unsourced compilations from large-language-model output. The index is intended as a working reference for people whose own publications will be peer-reviewed; including unverifiable secondary material would defeat the purpose. We do, however, include the published Arabic-language popular-archaeology magazines (Hurriyat al-Maaref, the monthly bulletin of the SCA, and the now-discontinued Misr al-Athar) because their reportage of access changes is contemporaneous and often the only public record.
The most-used part of the bibliography is the season-report concordance. Each archaeological mission working in Middle Egypt publishes a season report in its national journal of record — the German missions in Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, the British in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, the French in the Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale. The concordance maps these to the relevant SCA bulletin number and to the Arabic press coverage of the same season. A subscriber tracing a single discovery from announcement through formal publication can pull the entire chain in one search.
The site files go deep into individual locations. The regional walkthroughs below sit one level up: each is a single page that explains the governorate as an archaeological region, recommends an order of visits, and links out to the individual site files. They are kept short on purpose — five to seven minutes of reading each.
Meir, the Assiut Museum, the Wadi el-Sebua satellite sites, the Coptic monasteries west of Asyut city, and the practical logistics from the city's main hotels. Recommended order of visits is Meir first, museum on the return day.
Read the Meir fileSohag National Museum, the Akhmim site store, the White and Red Monasteries, the long-distance possibility of a day-trip north to Abydos (in Sohag governorate but conventionally treated as part of the Luxor circuit).
Read the Sohag fileBeni Hasan, Tuna el-Gebel, El-Ashmunein, Tell el-Amarna and the Mallawi Museum, organised as a four-day base from Minya city. The single densest archaeological cluster in Middle Egypt and the best place to start.
Read the Amarna fileMeidum pyramid, the Faiyum oasis edge sites that fall within the governorate boundary, and the visitor logistics from Beni Suef city. The lightest of the four governorates in terms of standing sites; a single full day usually covers it.
Request the fileThe standard turnaround is three working days from the date of payment, assuming the topic falls inside our four-governorate scope. Wider searches — for example, anything that requires consulting the Cairo libraries in person — are quoted with a longer window, usually five to seven working days. We do not run an express service.
No. The itinerary review is a feasibility memo, not a marketing document. You may incorporate the factual content into your own brochure, but we will not lend the Verdi Heritage name to commercial brochures and we will not write itinerary copy on commission. This is set out in the engagement letter.
Yes, in a limited way. Our Arabic-language editor works mainly on archive content, but accepts external Arabic-to-Arabic editing of short academic abstracts and conference papers on Middle Egypt topics. We do not edit Arabic literary or commercial work.
Yes, under Service D. Several universities run a Middle Egypt segment as part of a wider Egyptology or archaeology course. We can prepare a written briefing pack tailored to the syllabus, including current site conditions, a reading list drawn from the bibliography, and a small set of high-resolution images released under a teaching licence. Contact the desk for a quote.
A single A4 page of Arabic-English translation, or a one-hour bibliographic search billed at the hourly rate. Below that the administrative overhead exceeds the work, and we politely decline.
No. Service work and subscription are separate. A service client who would benefit from the subscriber bibliography is offered a discounted first-month subscription at the close of the project; this is opt-in and not bundled by default.
The pricing page lays out the three subscription tiers. The contact page is the door for any of the four editorial services.