In 1911 Simon provided the financing of Ludwig Borchardt's excavations at Pharao Akhenaten's city in Amarna, whereafter large parts of the found artefacts including the busts of Nefertiti and Tiye passed into his ownership, according to a – still disputed – 1913 partition treaty with the Egyptian Département des antiquités under Gaston Maspero.
In 2002, Franquelo and Lowe contributed to a project, supported by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities, to laser-scan and replicate the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, which was completed in 2010.
The story of this museum began when the Egyptian president decreed that the responsibility of the former visitor centre building was to transferred from the tourism ministry to that of culture (and, specifically, the Supreme Council of Antiquities).
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ARCE also runs a summer language program for university students studying Arabic and awards fellowships for research in Egypt and works with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and its institutional members in conserving and excavating sites around Egypt, with notable current projects including El Kab, the Precinct of Mut, the Red Monastery, the Temple of Khonsu the Temple complex at Luxor, and the temple of Ramses II at Abydos.
Zahi Hawass, the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told AFP news agency that the law would not affect buildings such as the Luxor Las Vegas hotel because it was not an exact copy of a pyramid and its interior was completely different.
On February 8, 2006, the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced that an American team led by the University of Memphis had uncovered a pharaonic-era tomb (KV63), the first uncovered there since King Tutankhamun's in 1922.
He also brought larger finds from excavations back to Leipzig with him (for example the limestone head of Queen Nefertiti) with the permission of the then French-run Antiquities Service.
Sydney Barnett was the founder's son who purchased and brought back from Egypt some of the mummies the museum is now famous for returning to Dr Hawass of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, travelled to Luxor to visit the new tomb on 10 February 2006, when the international press were also allowed their first glances through the breached door.
A recipient of the Order of Merit (Egypt), El-Abbadi is a member of Egypt's Supreme Council of Culture (SCC), Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), and l'Institut d'Égypte.
By 2010, DNA analysis, sponsored by the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass, was able to formally identify the Elder Lady to be Queen Tiye.