The history of diagonal star table research spans a relatively short period, and only begins with Daressy in 1900. Below is a summary of the sequence of events relating to the publication of the tables.
| Year | Research |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Daressy publishes T1. |
| 1904 | |
| 1911 | Chassinat & Palanque publish T2, T3, T5, and T12, and compare these tables with Lacau's. |
| 1932 | Pogo compiles the previous three articles and adds T10. |
| 1933 | Capart quotes that Pogo already knows about T4 and is preparing to publish it. |
| 1936 | Pogo publishes T4; Pogo publishes T8, T6, and K2. |
| 1960 | EAT1: compiles T1 - T9, T12, and K0 - K3. Of these, 10 were known previously (see above); T7, K1, and K3 are new. Omits T10, perhaps because of lack of photos or drawings, or thinking it was too badly damaged to read. |
| 1983 | Locher publishes K4 which is in storage in Turin. It seems that Neugebauer and Parker had no contact at all with Turin because in EAT1 they wrote "Present location: Turin Museum, now perished" for T7 (referencing de Buck), when it is surviving and (currently) on public display. |
| 1985 | Lapp describes and draws K5 during the short period it was exhibited. |
| 1990/1993 | Eggebrecht (1990, 1993) notes and photographs T9 but doesn’t analyse it. |
| 1992 | Locher publishes the schema of K5 and notes the existence of X1. |
| 1998 | Locher publishes T10 after seeing it in person in Cairo. He also publishes the schemas of T9 and T11. He mentions his previously-published tables K5 and K4, to bring the total number of coffins “from 12 to 17”. This count does not include K0 (not a coffin, and the only table not from the Middle Kingdom) or X1. |
| 2002 | Symons publishes two fragments, K6 and K7, from the British Museum, London. |
| 2005 | Kahl publishes a photo of K9. |
| 2007 | Symons re-classifies all tables published so far (excluding K9, unknown to her at this point) into two groups - T and K - and publishes all the schemas together. |
| 2010 | Zitman notes the existence of K10 and T/K?-S16X. |
| 2013 | Symons & Cockcroft visit and publish K10. Cockcroft & Symons update schemas for T8 (including a "new" decan) and T11. This database is published. |
| 2014 |
Cockcroft & Symons publish a new fragment (likely from K5), update T10, and note a small inaccuracy in T1's horizontal strip. Dieleman publishes a new fragment, K11, the only one in North America. |
| 2015 |
Symons updates schemas for all tables including K8 and K9. (K11 is not included as it had not appeared when this manuscript was written. |
| 2017 | Ferraris' publication of a new fragment from the collection in Turin is expected to appear. |
| To Date | We know of 28 tables, of which one has never been described (T/K?-S16X), some have disappeared or are out of reach (K5, T5), and two are fragments currently awaiting publication (T/K?-S10/st12 and the Turin fragment). |