Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Skeleton Statue Guide

Exploring under Vatican City chances are you've walked by an ominous room with 10 skeletal figures with Roman numerals above their heads looking at a tomb in the middle. These Skeletal Statues have a secret, if you approach them and interact with them you're able to turn a valve on their lamps to switch them on and off. In this Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Skeleton Statue Guide we'll show you what information you need to be able to earn the secret prize.

How To Find The Skeletal Statues

In order to reach the Skeletal Statues you should travel to the Tower of Nicolas V and make your way through the passageway that you opened with the wine. After you've made it past the Christ puzzle keep moving through this linear tunnel until you reach the large chamber with the hole in the floor. Walk to your right past the hole in the floor and you'll arrive.

Inside this room, you'll see five Skeletal Statues to the left, and five to the right, each with Roman Numberals running from 1-10 (I - X).

Vatican Catacombs Skeleton Statues Hint

Before we go too much further we want to give a hint that this solution has something to do with the Secret of Giants Fieldwork and the photos that you take.

Skeletal Statues Solution

The solution to this puzzle is in the Golden Man that appear in the of the photos that you've taken as part of The Secret of Giants and the lit candle (or absence of) below. Pull each of them up in your inventory by accessing the Secret of Giants Discovery and put them in order chronologically. For example the Fourth Inscription shows the Golden Man is his grave, this would represent the tenth Skeletal Figure and the candle below means that the torch should be lit.

The solution for this is:

1. Torch Lit
2. Torch Unlit
3. Torch Lit
4. Torch Lit
5. Torch Unlit
6. Torch Lit
7. Torch Lit
8. Torch Unlit
9. Torch Unlit
10. Torch Lit

The reward for lighting all of the torches correctly is that the tomb in the center of the room will open revealing... a donkey's jaw that you can use as a melee weapon that has extremely high durability. Strangely enough this melee weapon is a reference to a passage from the Bible Judges 15:16 where Samson defeated a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a Donkey.

And Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps,
with the jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men."