The scope and contents of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Collection provides extensive insight into the projects carried out by the IAC during its time at Claremont Graduate University. The “Administration Series” contains many types of official documents of the IAC. This series contains administrative files that include notes and minutes of advisory board meetings from 1963 to 2003. Also included in this series are building blueprints, financial information, correspondence, information on multiple projects, and a large amount of photographs documenting the IAC. One of the cornerstones of this series is the numerous files on the IAC Museum and the objects within its collection throughout the IAC’s existence. Another large portion of this series includes the many audio recordings of the various lecture series, conferences, and recordings of the Nag Hammadi dig.

The “Nag Hammadi Dig Series” contains all pertinent documentation on the excavation and eventual translation of the Nag Hammadi Codices from 1968 to 1980. The Nag Hammadi codex could be consider the most important of the collection as is contains the information on the IAC’s efforts the excavate the original site of discovery and the subsequent efforts into preserving and translating the books. This series contains unique information with field notes put together from members of the IAC team on the dig itself. Also within this series are all of the maps from the IAC. These maps cover everything from hand sketched maps of the Nag Hammadi area to NASA satellite images. Another large portion of this series consists of hundreds of photographs and slides.