Alley of the Sphinxes

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Alley of the Sphinxes
General information
location	Avenue of Sphinxes, Thebes, Egypt
Date	1378 BC
Objective	Summon the ancient guardian using the four elements.
Par time	25 minutes
Secrets	1 (SS1, SS:XB & SSHD) 2 (SSCR)
Game information
Previous level	The Grand Obelisk (chronologically) Metropolis (in-game)
Next level	Karnak

Alley of the Sphinxes is the tenth level of Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam: Xbox, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter, and Serious Sam Classics: Revolution.

Plot

After obtaining the Sign of Amon-Ra relic from the Temple of Ptah in Memphis, Sam walked in the desert for many days, and is forced to drop most of his ammo (except cannonballs if the player still has them leftover from the previous level) to make walking easier. He is now approaching Karnak in Thebes. To enter it, he must place the four elements onto four altars, which will cause an ancient guardian that brings death to appear.

Secrets

1. To the far left, from the starting area, you'll see there is a lone palm tree in the distance. Pick up the items there to to register the secret. Be warned that picking up the items will spawn a Major Bio-mechanoid and some Minor Bio-mechanoids .
2. (Serious Sam Classics: Revolution only) right before going through the doors into the large arena, go left and follow the wall until you reach its end. When there, shoot a rocket at the piece of the wall that is right next to the temple. The secret XL4-P 'Ghostbuster' Beam Gun will be in an alcove there. However, the player will inevitably take heat damage upon leaving the area.

Related achievements

Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

	The talk of parties
	Defeat the giant Lava Golem.

	Stuff of Legends
	Find the XL4P Beam Gun outside of Bright Island.

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter

	Huge Pile of Lava
	Defeat the Lava Golem boss.

Serious Sam Fusion

	Huge Pile of Lava
	Defeat the Lava Golem boss on Alley of the Sphinxes.

Trivia

• In The First Encounter, this map is either set in the evening or afternoon, depending on the difficulty played. In Serious Sam HD and Serious Sam VR, it's set at night.
• The large Lava Golem boss spawns at the end of Metropolis instead of at the end of this level in Serious Sam: Xbox.
• In the classic version of the game, if the player walks about 5 minutes backwards from the way Sam spawned when the map starts, they can find a tower behind a sand mound in the desert. The tower is not present in the HD or VR remakes of the game.