Burial Chambers
Making her way through the cavernous outside of the tomb, Lara braves the traps and pitfalls of the Tomb of Seth and his followers.
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Summary
The Burial Chambers are at first a fairly linear progression of trapped corridors. In these walls, followers of the cult of Seth have been buried perhaps at the same time as Seth himself was interred. The Chambers are lavishly decorated in precious and semi-precious stones - unusual given the demonised status that he appears to have in the game. However, he is a god.
The chambers end in the burial chamber of Seth himself, which includes a very large sarcophagus with a statue of Seth lying on top of it. On the statue's chest is the Amulet of Horus. There are also drains leading away from the sarcophagus. Their use is made clear once the amulet is removed, as blood begins to pour from (or into?) the sarcophagus.
Lara must then move a large statue of the god to exit through a sarcophagus set in a wall and into a cavern area behind the tomb. Here there are several temple like structures which hold the keys to get out - the Golden Serpent and the Scarab Talisman. The level also features an ingenious octagonal room which can be turned ninety degrees in order to retrieve the Scarab Talisman and also to exit the level. The exit of the level is also spectacular, with Lara rising on a bed of sand that trickles down the walls to reach a passage to the Valley of the Kings.
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Mass graves such as the Burial Chambers are not unusual, some parallels being the catacombs of both Rome and Paris. However, the mass grave of one cult is indeed unusual, and demonstrates a burial practice like that of the early Pharaohs - that of burial with their servants to serve them in the next life.
