Once at the pyramid, talk to Tarik. He will tell you about the dangers of the pyramid, the rewards, and about an ancient sceptre.

Now enter through one of the four entrances and you will be in a tomb. If the tomb has a Guardian mummy in it, you're in the right tomb. If not, try another one.

Talk to the Guardian mummy (or right-click him and select "Start minigame"). He will tell you about the minigame and will ask you if you want to give it a try. Accept his offer and you'll start the minigame. One game lasts 5 minutes.

The Rooms

Each room requires a different Thieving level. Here are the room requirements.

*You do not receive this experience if a scarab swarm appears when you open the chest.
**If you check an urn for snakes, you are rewarded half the experience for searching it normally. If you have charmed the snake before searching the urn, you will only receive half the experience for searching it. The best experience from urns is from searching for snakes, NOT charming the snake, and looting the urn.

Also note: When picklocking doors to progress through the rooms, you receive equal thieving experience to opening the chest for that room.

All the rooms have the same principle. When you enter the room, deactivate the spear trap in front of you (awards 10 Thieving XP) and then either continue on to the next level room or start searching the urns, chests, and sarcophagi.

To continue on to a higher level room, picklock the numerous tomb doors around you until you find the one that isn't a dead end.

Any of the urns, chests, and sacrophagi can contain an artifact, but they all can have traps too. A chest can contain a level 98 Scarab swarm, an urn can contain a snake that poisons you, and a sarcophagus can contain a level 84 Mummy. You can avoid the snake by first searching the urn for snakes and then when one appears, you can click on it to charm it (requires a Snake charmer, and you may still be bitten occasionally).

All of the artifacts you obtain can be sold to Simon Templeton at the Agility Pyramid (Northeast of Sophanem).

Artifacts

Name	Pic	Price
Ivory Comb		50gp
Pottery scarab		75
Pottery statuette		100
Stone seal		150
Stone scarab		175
Stone statuette		200
Gold seal		750
Gold scarab		1000
Gold statuette		1250

As you progress through the rooms, the possible loot becomes better (Gold statuettes appear beginning in the 7th room), and generally more valuable artifacts can be found in higher-level rooms. Chests and sarcophagi also tend to yield better items than urns.

The Pharoah's Sceptre

In addition to the standard artifacts that may be looted from the pyramid, chests and sarcophagi have a chance of yielding a special artifact called the Pharoah's Sceptre. This item allows a user three teleports to the Agility Pyramid, the Desert Treasure Pyramid, or the Thieving Pyramid. After these three teleports are used up, it may be recharged by offering the Guardian Mummy either 6 gold artifacts, 12 stone artifacts, or 24 ivory/pottery artifacts.

It is possible to get multiple sceptres per player, but when one is found, the player is escorted out of the pyramid by the Guardian Mummy and must begin a new game of Pyramid Plunder to re-enter the pyramid.