There’s a letter here, from Moore, Scott & Associates. We recommend you read through this first.  

Once you’ve read through the beneficiary letter, you’ll want to acquaint yourself with all the documents in the envelope. There’s an invitation to the mummy unwrapping party, the certificate, a photo, a scroll, Emma Tilley’s diary, and a translation guide. Many of these are narrative, but there’s also a puzzle to be solved. Start with the mysterious scroll.

Emma Tilley has included a guide to common hieroglyphs - and very useful it is too if you had something to translate.

Use the translation guide alongside the ripped scroll. Translating Egyptian hieroglyphs into English isn’t precise, but there’s a general message hidden here. Using the translation guide with the portion of ripped scroll, the scroll is read top to bottom, and left to right. To get you started, it seems as if the first ‘column’ reads:

I walked in the desert and discovered
A place to hide a secret
I marked places 12
Broken across 3 regions

Read "The Scarab Scroll" for the full walkthrough.

There’s a scrap of a scroll here - it’s not the full picture, but it can still be translated.

Translating Egyptian hieroglyphs into English isn’t precise, but there’s a general message hidden here. Using the translation guide with the portion of ripped scroll, the scroll is read top to bottom, and left to right. To get you started, it seems as if the first ‘column’ reads:

I walked in the desert and discovered
A place to hide a secret
I marked places 12
Broken across 3 regions

The full scroll translates to:

I walked in the desert and discovered
A place to hide a secret
I marked places 12
Broken across 3 regions

The first region underneath the open sky
[Gates to the City]
[Lake of Her Tears]
[Sun God Ra Holds Up the Sky]

[Sun God Ra Holds up the Moon]
I went to the Western region of crops
[Place of the Two Birds]
[Beautiful Farm]

[Eternal Mountain]
[Lady Moon]
Last was the main city region
[The vault of the Ka Priest]

[Mankind’s Wisdom]
[Goat’s Gate]
[Place of the Ka Priest’s Sun]
Surrounded by gold, amethyst and turquoise.

It seems like the hieroglyphs enclosed with a pill shape are place names.

Each of these photographs contains a few important details, firstly - the writing on the back in German and in English. Secondly, the strange patterns around the edge. And lastly, each photo appears to have hieroglyphs hidden in them.

The first photograph (the person standing at the entrance of the labyrinth) has the hieroglyphs “Soul”, “Bears”, “Gift”.

The second photograph, of two people in the long corridor bears the hieroglyphs “City”, “Child”, “Gateway”

The third photograph, of feet in the sand, contains the hieroglyphs “Grief”, “Underworld”, “House”

The final photograph, of the ruins, shows the hieroglyphs “Beautiful”, “Wisdom”, “Silver”

Some of these words are contained within the handwritten notes on the back.

The photographs all contain hidden hieroglyphs. These are:

• First Photo (entrance/Seele) - “Soul”, “Bears”, “Gift”
• Second Photo (corridor/Kind) - “City”, “Child”, “Gateway”
• Third Photo (feet/Trauer) - “Grief”, “Underworld”, “House”
• Fourth Photo (ruins/Schon) - “Beautiful”, “Wisdom”, “Silver”

The four handwritten notes on the back suggest an order of how to arrange the four photographs. Each contains a number of keywords only found in one particular photo, and can be arranged clockwise (from top left) as such: 

• 1423 - The Soul of the Beautiful City of Grief
• 2314 - Child of the Underworld Bears Wisdom
• 3142 - Grief is a Gift worth all the Silver in the City.
• 4231 - Beautiful Gateway to the House of the Soul

At the centre of each arrangement, a symbol is revealed. The symbols are:

There are a number of relief sketches in Emma’s diary, and the ‘Queens Challenge’ explained in “Ancient Records of Egypt” suggests the method to solve this challenge by drawing a continuous line around the symbols. Use the artist’s depiction as your guide.

Begin with the following rules:

The Eye of Horus cannot have any sides touching it. The bird has 1, the brother has 2 sides, and the goat has 3 sides.

It may help to mark the paper with Xes where lines cannot be, and fill in the lines you know must be in a particular place.

The solution to the four relief sketches are as follows:

The symbols, they’re so specific. It’s like a game. Have you seen these symbols on another item in your possession?

Use the Knucklebone with the Seega board, and ‘roll’ the stone around the board to plot a path.

See Papyrus Scrolls of Symbol Chains for the full walkthrough.

These Seega boards are from an Ancient Egyptian game. They were played with knucklebones for dice. In this case, they’re hiding a secret message - is there anywhere else you see these symbols?

Use the Knucklebone with the Seega board, and ‘roll’ the stone around the board to plot a path. Your guide is the strings of symbol changes on the papyrus.

See Papyrus Scrolls of Symbol Chains for the full walkthrough.

These symbols closely match that on the Seega board. It looks like to solve this challenge you’ll need those board, and a knucklebone. Surely there’s one of those around here somewhere?

Take the knucklebone and, starting in the first location, ‘roll’ the knucklebone across the board, collecting all of those symbols as you go. Make sure you make a note of your path as you go.

There are four chains of symbols, and two Seega boards to use. Make a note of the start position, and trace your path across both. The resulting paths are the following symbols:

To solve the archaeological map, you’ll need 12 symbols collected from the Four Photographs, the Queen’s Challenge, and the Seega Boards. If you haven’t collected these yet - go back and find them first!

With your 12 symbols, you’ll need to find them on the map. If this seems like a daunting task, fear not - you have a clue to help you from the first mailing. Those 12 place names from the Scarab Scroll will come in handy here, and give you a nudge as to where to look in the city.

For example:

Use the 12 place names from the translated scarab scroll, and find them on the map.

• [Gates to the City]
• [Lake of Her Tears]
• [Sun God Ra Holds Up the Sky]
• [Sun God Ra Holds up the Moon]
• [Place of the Two Birds]
• [Beautiful Farm]
• [Eternal Mountain]
• [Lady Moon]
• [The vault of the Ka Priest]
• [Mankind’s Wisdom]
• [Goat’s Gate]
• [Place of the Ka Priest’s Sun] 

Within each of these areas, you’ll find one of the 12 symbols you’ve collected. Make a mark where each symbol is on the map.

Reveal the next hint to find out where they can be found.

Here is where all 12 symbols may be found:

• Lower right side of B5
• Top of C6
• Middle of C5
• Lower right of D5
• Middle of F6
• Right of F5
• Lower left of G4
• Top of H4
• Middle of B2
• Bottom of D1
• Right of D4
• Middle of F2

The second half of the Scarab Scroll! You know what to do, it’s time to get translating.

You’ll need to use the translation guide from the very beginning of your adventure.

The first line of the second half of the Scarab Scroll begins:

We walked the city desert place

But pay close attention this time, as the translation offers some symbols that cannot be translated. Perhaps these symbols are instead… Guidelines?

The translated second half of the Scarab Scroll is:

We walked the city desert place
Between 12 places in the city, looks like
(The eye of horus)
And drew a line between

[The vault of the Ka Priest]
And [Lady Moon]
Then I drew a line between
[The Goat’s Gate]

And [Place of the Ka Priest’s Sun]
(The inner eye of horus)
Two marks between meet
Vault of treasure

Pay particular attention to the symbol at the ‘Eye of Horus’. It doesn’t look like a normal Eye of Horus, it looks like a guideline. Perhaps it’s instructions as to what to do on the map…

To understand the second step of the map, you’ll need to have translated the scarab scroll in its entirety. Don’t proceed until you have!

The translated scarab scroll is a list of instructions - and it’s telling you to draw lines between the symbols found in area. If you look closely, there’s even some guidelines in the map. This will surely reveal the location.

Follow the instructions in the translated scarab scroll and you’ll be able to draw an enormous Eye of Horus on the map. There, at the centre of the eye, is the location of the vault.

Once you’ve plotted the directions on the map, you can validate your answer. Don’t read any further if you haven’t yet completed the map and found the final location!

In Emma’s diary, she describes a peculiar dream she had in which the scarab was crushed in the palm of a mummy’s black, boney fingers. I wonder if you can do the same?

Destroy the scarab. Yes - really!

Inside you’ll find a smaller, blue scarab with a symbol on it. This symbol marks the correct location of the tomb on the map - if you’ve drawn your lines correctly, you’ll have found the correct place.

The following is a complete walkthrough of every puzzle in the game. Proceed with caution.

1. First, translate the fragment of the scarab scroll you have. It’ll read like a poem, but it’ll mention 12 important locations: [Gates to the City] [Lake of Her Tears] [Sun God Ra Holds Up the Sky] [Sun God Ra Holds up the Moon] [Place of the Two Birds] [Beautiful Farm] [Eternal Mountain] [Lady Moon] [The vault of the Ka Priest] [Mankind’s Wisdom] [Goat’s Gate] [Place of the Ka Priest’s Sun]

2. In the second envelope, you’ll find three challenges that will give you 4 symbols each

1. In the first, use the hieroglyphs and their translations in 4 photographs to arrange them in a pattern. In the centre of the pattern, a symbol. Repeat for each translation.

2. In the second, use the guide to solve the ‘Queen’s Challenge’ by drawing different number of walls around hieroglyphs and completing the grid.

3. In the third, take your knucklebone and roll it across the seega boards, using the chain of symbols as your guide.

3. Once you’ve found four symbols, plot them on the map.

4. Next, translate the second half of the scarab scroll to read the instructions on how to draw lines between your locations on the map.

5. At the centre of the Eye of Horus, the secret location - verify your answer by destroying the scarab and finding your prize within.