The fifth volume in the Studia Panopolitana series (Occasional Paper 5) is a festschrift presented to Klaus Peter Kuhlmann on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The articles by friends and associates who accompanied Klaus P. Kuhlmann during his four decades of archaeological work in Egypt mirror the jubilarian’s wide scope of research interests. These range from the pyramid age to the modern history of Egyptian archaeology, span the fields of archaeology, history, and linguistics and comprise the cultures of the Egyptian Nile Valley, the Libyan Desert as well as the Hellenic Mediterranean. The archaeology and history of the Akhmîm region being one of Klaus P. Kuhlmann’s major research foci.