Publicly accessible, the project database and the publication of the outcome will not only constitute powerful tools in the analysis of the Theban evidence, but it will also allow other scholars immediate access to data and results from the project, which will facilitate tremendously research. The results delivered by this avenue of research, which has never been comprehensively done before and demands a large team, beyond-cutting-edge technology, and traditional library/archive/fieldwork methods, will transform the way in which scholars approach to a second millennium BCE city.

In a nutshell, the site of Thebes and both its western and eastern banks offer an exceptional opportunity to convey traditional archaeological research and beyond-cutting-edge technology on the reconstruction of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom, as well as an unparalleled framework of historical, philological, and archaeological research on the multiple aspects this community and setting can offer to the field. The scale of our project is unprecedented: historical (Theban nomarchs, political conflict, toponymy, provincial and military administration, social conditions, wealth flow), philological (religious texts, administrative titles, literary propagandistic compositions, language change), archaeological (settlement, cemeteries, temples), and avant-garde technology (remote sensing, satellite imagery, geophysical analysis, GIS, geomorphological reconstruction, 3D laser). Upon our documentation and study of the area, we considered that the reconstruction of the social, political, and cultural conditions of the period at Thebes could be achieved only by collecting, examining, and interpreting all data available, integrating the evidence into a global, larger scale project as described in this section.