Level 13

The Archaeological Dig

The level starts at an opened fence go in and to your right. You unavoidably will encounter a guard; take his weapon a K2 Impactor for that extra jolt. Then proceed to the room he came out of and throw a switch in the middle of the room. You'll see some lights come on and it turns on the Air Conditioning (Cool!) Activating the switch will help any elevator we encounter later to have a good chance of being functional also now we can leave this area.

Go out the door and turn right you will encounter a baddie so take the baddie down and take his weapon. Back up a bit because of the baddie the distracted us we missed a door. If we exited the air conditioning room and went right and turn right around that building there is a metal door. Open the door and go up to the computer terminal and press action.

This activates a scanner. For PS2 users use the left stick and move it to the upper left hand corner and when you see the hand pop up press action to get our first Ancient Symbol Tracing.

Leave this room and to the right go to the office at the very end. Inside walk up to the computer area and look for what looks like a printer, grab the second Ancient Symbol Tracing. If you walk over to the far left PC you'll hear Lara find out about the Nephilim.

Leave this room and draw your weapon a baddie is coming. Proceed towards where we entered this level and in the middle of the fence is an opening with a ladder. Go down the ladder and make your way left and go do another ladder. Find your way across some planks and hold the walk and jump at the same time for a short leap across.

Go down the next ladder but come right back up a baddie with a good trigger finger will be shooting at you. Position yourself with your weapon until you can target him and finish him off.

Now retrace your way back, past the ladder where you came down. Look at the wall on your right it looks climbable! Step over the barrier and climb up. When you get to the top, look up to see the bridge across, the underneath is a monkey climb, jump up and monkey across.

Here's a great spot once there to save your game in case you miss. Once up on the wooden platform climb up onto the walkway and go to the middle and make a left you'll see arch with a circle on the floor, this is the door to the next level.

Nearby is a switch that will lower an elevator to the scaffolding throwing the switch. Head back to that wooden platform and drop down to the concrete arch below it, stand at the back of the concrete platform otherwise every time you try and jump across Lara grabs the monkey swing again. Angle yourself for a jump onto the elevator section we lowered with the switch. You'll see on your left one of those round pinwheel things you see at amusement parks except this one is a hell of a lot older and does something different except spin.

This opens the Tomb Of Ancients and it needs some switches moved in order and some pulling on the wheel to unlock so let's have your undivided attention. Up the stairs and to the left are switches that have to be pulled in a certain order.

This unlocks and locks portions or sections of the wheel for us to line up the four proper symbols to unlock the Tomb of Ancients. Now that we know what we have to do lets do it. The four Symbols we have to line up are on the dial for us to move them properly go to the switch area up the stairs and around the corner of the wheel they look like for wooden sticks from an episode of the Flintstones.

Ignore the first lever for now and pull levers 2 & 3 & 4 to the lower position and go back to the wheel or mechanism.

 

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Only the outer section will move now because the other three are closed. Pull that bar on the wheel until you see a crescent moon shape line into place with the closed sections. (Picture 1)

Go back to the switches and pull lever Number 1 to the off position and pull lever number 2 to open. Go back to the wheel and find the symbol that looks like an upside down stick person and pull on the wheel and line that symbol up with our crescent moon. (Picture 2)

Head back to the switches again and pull switch number 2 to off and 3 and return to the wheel pointer and look for the circle symbol check your inventory to be sure it looks like a ball with an outer ring. (Picture 3)

Line that up with our other 2 we have done and head back to the switches and we now have one to go. Pull lever or switch number 3 to off and pull lever 4 and head back to the pointer and find an insect symbol. (Picture 1)

The gizmo should unlock and open the Tomb of Ancients, which is that round circle above on the upper floor where we pulled the switch for the elevator earlier. We have to now head back there so get to the elevator platform and jump to the arch from before and climb to the wooden platform above and climb to the walkway.

Walk along and make a left and walk up to that newly made opening that you worked so hard to get open. Take a peek and hang drop down to Jump into the Tomb of Ancients and the end of this level.