This is another really cool level. It's also one of the bigger ones. I started it off by just running around mindlessly shooting things (there's a lot to shoot. Midas had a thing for apes). I got amazingly far that way. There are a lot of places you can run into to. There are also a lot of places you can't get to until much later, even though you can easily see them. I wasted a lot of time trying to get to places you can't get to. You can't climb your way up the rocks in the hall with the pillars. You can't climb up the to the ledges in the garden room. There's something else you can climb up on in that room, though. You can't climb up Midas's legs. The real stuff happens when you get into the room on top of the large stone staircase. Notice those pillars, how the ones on your right are smaller, then they get gradually larger until they reach the level of the platform up there? I'm sure that doesn't mean anything. I don't know greek, but some of those symbols above the four doors in that room point up and some point down. Funny that there's five of them, too. I've gotten letters about the room with flames and rats. The secret is that there is no secret. It's just the most annoying thing you'll do in the whole game. Kill the rats first (duh). Try to line up with the first 3 pillars by jumping at an angle. Don't jump from the edge of the platform, as you will have to hop back twice before getting to the end (your jumps are a little bit longer than the distance from pillar to pillar). You'll have to take a step back and swivel on the 3rd pillar. By the time you're on the fourth, the flames will relight. Stay towards the edge of the pillar and take your time lining up for the last jump. Yes, you're getting burned and you will have to heal yourself at least once, but take it slow. Be sure not to jump into the center of the last flame. Jump right to the side of it. A final note... don't give up on it. I had to try it a bizillion times before I made it. I've also been told you can hold down run and jump the whole time and aim just right. Who knows. The gold room is one of the coolest puzzles I've seen. It'll through you off because it takes soooo long to get the next bar. Just look at the mess you made, junior. You might have noticed that you can jump off of a slope and catch a lot of air. That broken pillar is pretty high up there. The alligator won't come out until he has a reason to. It's not like you have to stay in the water, though. Do you think you did all that climbing, swimming and rock hopping to get some health? Go back out to those long corridors with the water chutes and look around. Find a spot to land and let gravity do the rest. That health pack on that ledge over there LOOKS soooo far away. There's another large jump coming up soon. DO NOT climb down to the ground level. Ahhhh.. That's what all the ledges were for. By now, you know you're looking for a lead bar. Don't get down until you find one. The third room is a matter of jumping properly. You don't need anybody's help there. Now you have 3 lead bars, but Lara doesn't want to put them in the holes in the 4th room. Hmm. Maybe because they don't look like the picture on the top. Wrong color or something. Think about the legend of Midas. You owe it to the programmers to save the game and jump onto Midas's hand. They did something really cool that everyone should see. =OD