Indiana Jones Secret of the Queen Mother elevator and animal stone puzzles

Dec. 11, 2024

You can’t uncover the Secret of the Queen Mother without powering up a lift and placing some Stone Glyphs

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The Indiana Jones Secret of the Queen Mother fieldwork tests you with powering up an elevator and unlocking a tomb with some stone discs at a Nazi dig site. They’re not especially complicated puzzles but do require a lot of walking around. This quest from Omar is also a lot less clear if you don’t have the easy-to-miss dig site map – in fact, even Omar is easy to miss, and you can complete the entire quest before even talking to him. Regardless, here’s how you use the elevator and complete the Secret of the Queen Mother in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Indiana Jones Secret of the Queen Mother map location

While not critical to completing Secret of the Queen Mother, grabbing the Khetkawes Dig Map will help you get your bearings in this complicated area ofIndiana Jones and the Great Circle. You’ll find iton the desk with three canopic jars under Omar’s tent. If you’ve not found Omar, he’s just outside the northwest corner of the red restricted area on the map covering the Funerary Temple of Khentkawes I – almost directly south of the meteorological station where theIndiana Jones Cloud Atlas codepuzzle is.

Since this is a restricted area, I highly recommend progressing the main Idol of Ra quest enough to the point where you can access theIndiana Jones Wehrmacht key and uniformas this’ll let you act like you belong.

The first major puzzle to solve is powering up the elevator that leads down into the tomb. Head to the elevator in the middle of the dig site and you’ll notice a yellow generator next to it with a red cable and a blue cable attached but going off in different directions. All you need to do is follow each cable until they reach a switch, then pull the lever on the switch to reactivate the power to that cable:

When following the red cable in Indiana Jones, you’ll eventually end up in a large room with lots of wooden scaffolding:

Keep following the blue cable in Indiana Jones until you reach a flooded room with no clear way to reach where the cable goes on the other side:

Once you’ve switched on both cables, you can power up the elevator by throwing the switch on the yellow generator. Once the lift arrives, hop on and select -1 to descend into the tomb of Khentkawes I and find the final pieces of this fieldwork puzzle.

Wander through the tomb and you’ll emerge into a large room with an ancient Egyptian mural on the back wall with three holes cut out. These slots are for three disc-like Stone Glyphs with animals on them, so your first job is finding all three discs:

Now you need to place them in the correct slots. Thefalcon goes in the top slot, thesnake goes in the middle slot, and thefish goes in the bottom slotto match the air, land, and sea pattern on the mural.

Once you’ve done that, the eye at the top of the mural will shine a light at a fragile wall. Grab one of the sledgehammers lying around and smash the wall, then crawl through the gap to reach a hidden chamber containing the Light Stele.

After that, use the elevator to get back up to the surface, then return to Omar and tell him about your findings. He’ll say you should give the Stele to Nawal (or the delivery boy for the “Belongs in a Museum” side quest) and that concludes the Secret of the Queen Mother, netting you 375 Adventure Points.

Delving into tombs and solving puzzles is what makes Indiana Jones and the Great Circle one of thebest adventure gamesyou can play right now.© GamesRadar+. Not to be reproduced without permission.

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