Short answers, pulled from the story.
Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the founding of the Institut d'Égypte in August 1798 within the palace of Hassan-Kashif on Cairo's outskirts. Gaspard Monge served as president of this new body during the French occupation.
Approximately 160 civilian scholars known as savants accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt between 1798 and 1801. These individuals came primarily from the Institut de France and formed the Commission des Sciences et Arts d'Égypte.
Publication took over twenty years with the final volume appearing in 1829 despite starting in 1809. The first test volumes of engravings were presented to Napoleon in January 1808 before full publication began.
The first edition typically contains nine text volumes plus ten plate volumes totaling twenty-three volumes overall. Ten plate volumes consist of 894 individual engravings derived from over 3000 drawings.
Dr Anne Godlewska describes this choice as deliberately transforming Egypt's landscape from chaos into European order. These maps informed plans for constructing canals through the Isthmus of Suez decades later.
A second edition known as the Panckoucke edition was published by Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke between 1821 and 1829. This version expanded text across more volumes while printing in smaller formats.