Temple of the Cat - Brightly Lit Room with Wide Stairway
After destroying 7 of the 8 mummies and using the switch to open the gold door in the previous area, you'll enter this anteroom with an ornate chair on a pedestal. The gold door opposite the entrance is still closed, so go through the doorway on the right...
...and start up the stairs, but watch your back.
When you reach the top step, the eighth mummy (29) wakes up. Roll, draw weapons (I like the shotgun or Uzis here), and run partway down the stairs.
Then, as the mummy approaches, you'll have room to hop back while shooting. Try not to jump around too much, though, since there are gaps on all sides, and it's a long drop to the deadly floor below.
Return to the top of the stairs and walk to the right corner.
Step off the corner to land on the flat block below.
From there, drop to the next lower block.
Walk to the edge then take a standing jump to the ledge across the gap, between the right (west) wall and the carved pillar. Jump to the small ledge ahead on the left (behind the carved pillar).
Walk to the far edge, then jump up onto the yellow block with the decorative border and Uzi ammo (48).
Turn to face the wall and jump straight up to grab the horizontal crevice. Traverse to the left until you can pull up.
Turn right and climb onto the ledge with the cat statue.
As you enter the room behind the cat statue...
...a golden bridge extends from the ledge behind you to the top of the stairs. Use the switch to open the gold door in the room at the foot of the stairs. Leave the switch room, but ignore the bridge and instead go after a secret.
NOTE: If you don't care about getting all secrets, pickups, and kills, just skip the next section. Proceed across the bridge, down the wide stairs, and into the anteroom with the chair on the pedestal. Watch out here, as a panther (31 by the main count) charges out through the door on the right. Go through that door and skip the next section. Pick up the walkthrough here, with the section titled "ROOMS WITH GREENERY."
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