Research Areas

This research focuses on the archaeological and architectural analysis of the Giza Plateau, with particular attention to structural systems, underground contexts, and non-invasive field methodologies.

  • Osiris Shaft and underground structures
  • Khafre Causeway and architectural systems
  • Western Escarpment rock-cut features
  • Non-invasive field observation and analysis
Selected Publications

Open-Access Archaeological Research

Architectural Constraints and Interface Anomalies in the Osiris Shaft Complex

Osiris Shaft · Non-invasive documentary assessment

A non-invasive archaeological–architectural assessment focused on wall–floor junctions, interface discontinuities, and localized moisture signatures within the Osiris Shaft complex.

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Reconsidering the Osiris Shaft: Evidence for a Connected Subterranean Network

Giza Plateau · Subterranean architecture

Study exploring the Osiris Shaft within a broader subsurface architectural framework through photographic documentation and limited tomographic correlation.

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A Rock-Cut Cavity in the Western Escarpment of the Giza Plateau

Western Escarpment · Preliminary observational study

Preliminary documentation and contextual analysis of an isolated rock-cut cavity within the western escarpment of the Giza Plateau.

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Field Work

Ongoing field research conducted directly on the Giza Plateau, focused on structural observation, architectural analysis, and documentation of anomalies within complex archaeological contexts.

The work is based on direct, non-invasive observation and aims to identify architectural constraints, discontinuities, and contextual patterns often overlooked in conventional interpretations.

Contact & Collaboration

For research collaborations, institutional dialogue, or project-related inquiries, please get in touch directly.

Email: dott.armandomei@gmail.com

All research is conducted within a non-invasive, evidence-based framework grounded in direct field observation.

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Queens Pyramids and the Zep Tepi: Primary Planning During the Apex of the Golden Age

@Armando Mei
Ancient Origins - April 12, 2016
Excerpt from the book "Ancient Mysteries" Amazon

Since the beginning of the nineteenth century and for the middle of the twentieth, an excessive and erratic haste to visit and explore ancient Egyptians ruins took place, as if the Ultimate Truth on mankind’s distant past could emerge from the ancient sands of Egypt. This Gold Rush culminated in the late forties, when the imaginary curve on the Cartesian’s axes, crept down, slowly, inexorably, plummeting to the lowest point in modern times.
Nevertheless, there are many mysteries yet to be discovered.
A description of the Giza Plateau is a very difficult exercise. Those of us who had the opportunity to visit the wonders of Egypt will be able to confirm how many buildings were erected in the desert sands, during the pre-dynastic and dynastic age; An heterogeneous system of monuments, houses, warehouses, clefts, wells integrated into a whole, like lines of a poem from ancient times.
Giza is the absolute definition of the chaos theory; dominated by two types of buildings, very different in shapes and functions: the pyramids and their giant fences, and the Sphinx and its majestic temples.



For centuries, those mysterious buildings drew researchers’ attention and tourists’ interest. At the same time, scholars tried to make sense of the meaning of pyramid architecture, with negative results.
In the past, scholars and alternative researchers wrote many archaeological treatises and voluminous books on the wonders of Ancient Egypt and, particularly, on the pyramids of Giza, driving the mind beyond the bounds of all imagination, to solve the mysteries of the most famous archaeological site in the world.
Nevertheless, Egyptologists did not yet achieve the correct interpretation of the monuments’ function. I think that all hypotheses, theories, intuitions, assumptions so far widely proposed, are fueled by factors independent of archaeological evidence. The absence of a unique method of investigation, partly due to the shortcomings of protocol procedures, makes less and less believable all theories proposed both by scholars and by alternative researchers. 
Differentiation among “school of thought” is a further example of what must never again be allowed to happen. In fact, its only mission is to confuse the matter even further, in a field under constant review, but without any scientific credibility. The many factors influencing archaeology are inspired by personal conflicts and not by a sense of pure professional duty.

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