Exploring the archaeology, myths, locations, cultures, and art of Tomb Raider.
If you’ve been following my antics on Twitter, you’ll probably know that I’ve recently been revisiting the Greece levels of Tomb Raider 1, sniffing out material for a new edition of Arte-Factual. It had been years since I last played the 1996 classic so I’d almost forgotten how much real-life …
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Time for another blast from the past as we return once again to the original 1996 Tomb Raider for this new edition of Arte-Factual! If you’ve ever played the original game, you may have noticed that the game developers drew inspiration from real-life artworks and artefacts, such as the Toltec pillars …
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In the last edition of Lara’s Travels, I wrote about the island of Jan Mayen in the Arctic Ocean, one of the real-life locations featured in Tomb Raider: Underworld. This time, however, we’ll be going back in time to where it all began and look at one of the places …
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In the last edition of Arte-Factual, I wrote about the Gayer-Anderson cat statue and its virtual counterpart seen in the original Tomb Raider. This time around, I will be looking at an artefact that depicts one of my favourite feathered friends: the Athenian Owl Figurine. The Athenian Owl Figure is one …
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In this edition of Arte-Factual, we’re going to turn our attention to the Golden Mask of Tornarsuk, an artefact from Tomb Raider II: The Golden Mask, a five-level mini-adventure that was created for the 1999 “Gold” edition re-release of Tomb Raider II. According to Inuit mythology, Tornarsuk (or Torngarsuk) is a god …
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