Anecdotes are small hidden stories around your city, the Museion, Expedition, and Egypt. Each one opens once you meet its prerequisite. Then find the right character or object and follow the steps in order.
Before you start
An anecdote only reacts once its prerequisite is met. If a character or icon from a step is missing, check the prerequisite first.
Some Egyptian Tales steps only appear after you leave and re-enter Duat or Egypt, and a few need a game restart. The steps say where.
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General
Around your city, the Museion, Expedition, and the Goddess Theater.
River God's Gift
- Prerequisite
- Reach the Mid Classical Age
- Find the swirl beside the farm.
- On the riverbank, you will see a frog.
- Drag the frog into the pool.
- Frogs and turtles then appear on the riverbank. Drag them into the pool as well.
Glory Supersedes Blood
- Prerequisite
- Build 9 Wonders
- Tap the Zzz above the training units on each of the 4 Barracks.
- Open Wonders, go to the Classical Age, tap Spartacus twice, and build the Colosseum.
Throne of the Lion
- Prerequisite
- Reach the Renaissance Age
- Tap the footprints near the billboard where you watch the 5 daily ads.
- Tap the scarecrow at the farm.
- Archimedes appears. Tap him.
- Complete the puzzle.
Rewrite Destiny
- Prerequisite
- Obtain Achilles and Hector and upgrade both to Lv. 50, and upgrade the Pikeman Barracks to Lv. 9
- Find Achilles and Hector arguing to the right of the Archer Barracks and tap the speech bubble.
- Drag Homer (above them) onto them, then tap the speech bubble again.
- A fight starts and Achilles disappears. Follow Hector as he hops around the screen, and tap him each time he stops.
- The two return to where they started. Tap the speech bubble and go through the duel again.
Conflict of Tongues
- Prerequisite
- Switch the language once
- In front of the Lumber Mill, you will see 3 guys.
- Tap them.
Femme Fatale's Gift
- Prerequisite
- Obtain the goddess Medusa and tap the stone 30 times
- Stone gathering seems a little strange. Take a closer look!
Scholar from the East
- Prerequisite
- Obtain the hero Confucius and build 12 Wonders
- Go to Heroes and open Confucius.
- Tap Marco Polo in the picture.
Leap of Faith?
- Prerequisite
- Obtain Eve's Gourmet Thief skin
- Go to the Goddesses page.
- Set Eve's alternate skin.
- There is a spy in the background. Tap it.
Artistic Duel
- Prerequisite
- Upgrade the Museion to 5 stars
- Tap Da Vinci arguing with Michelangelo near the Museion fountain (below Plato Academy).
- Bet on one of them and watch the fight, then:
- Da Vinci: tap Da Vinci near the Iron Mine in your home base.
- Michelangelo: go to the Astranook bedroom and complete Michelangelo's dialogue.
- Tap Da Vinci and Michelangelo near the Museion fountain again.
- Watch the fight.
- Wait 24 hours. Really.
- Tap them again and collect the reward.
Conqueror of King
- Prerequisite
- Complete 5 External Expeditions
- Go to Expedition.
- Open External.
- Tap the 3 heroes outside the city.
King of Conquest II
- Finish first
- Conqueror of King
- Go to Expedition.
- Open External.
- Attack the 3 heroes, then tap them again.
Invitation to Creation
- Prerequisite
- Send 10 messages
- Open the Collection tab and go to the Excavate page. Tap the large clay pot until it breaks.
- Go to the Goddess Theater and talk to Shakespeare. Pick the play Hamlet and do not skip it. When it ends, Shakespeare appears in the crowd. Tap him there.
- Find Cervantes: open his hero card and tap the dialogue bubble. You are then asked to find him again.
- Cervantes appears to the left of the Farm on the main screen. Tap him there.
- Go to the Bazaar. Dante is skipping along the path in the bottom-left area. Tap him there.
- Find Dante again: he is hiding on Homer's hero card. Open Homer's card and tap Dante.
- Return to the Goddess Theater. The characters from the anecdote are all on stage. Tap the group to close the scene and complete the anecdote.
I Create the Mountain
- Prerequisite
- Build 3 Wonders
- Open Wonders, go to the Stone Age, and talk to Da Vinci.
- Back on the home screen, talk to Da Vinci next to the Quarry.
- Open Wonders, go to the Stone Age, and talk to Da Vinci again.
- Open your Bag and inspect the token.
- Back in Wonders, build Devils Tower.
Black Widow
- Prerequisite
- Get Livia Drusilla's Elegy skin
- Talk to Drusilla outside the Brewery. She asks you to find her lost spiders:
- In the tree on the Blessing page
- In the window of the Astranook room
- Under the carpet in the Advisor room
- On a pedestal in the Bazaar (right side)
- On the billboard
- Next to the guild development building
- The spider tattoo on the belly of the girl in the welcome-back pop-up
Secrets of Immortality
- Prerequisite
- Reach the Exploration Era
- In the guild area, look in the fountain for the message in a bottle and complete the jigsaw puzzle.
- Blackbeard is on the dock below the Pasture.
Note: Your settlement buildings change position when you reach the Exploration Era.
Wishing Well
- Prerequisite
- Obtain the goddess Muse
- Tap the coin bubble above the fountain in the Museion.
- When asked which coin you dropped (gold, silver, or iron), choose the Muse Coin.
Falling Meteor
- Prerequisite
- Excavate 30 times in the Genesis Collection
- Go to Excavation and keep tapping the vase next to the pickaxe until the story moves on.
- Go to the Bazaar and tap the stall holder at the Quarry stall (left side). She talks about stones.
- A Golden Pyramid appears in the middle of the shelf. Tap it to take it.
- Open Wonders, go to the Bronze Age, and build the Great Pyramid.
Philosophical Thesis
- Prerequisite
- Raise the total building level in Socrates' Rostrum to 20
- Go to the Academic Contest part of the Museion.
- Tap the three eggs on top of the columns. The question of the chicken and the egg comes up.
- Tap the trail of bird prints by the owl statue in the main courtyard.
- Keep tapping Socrates in his golden chair at the Rostrum until his dialogue ends.
Note: The order of the eggs is not recorded yet.
The Dome Confinement
- Prerequisite
- Upgrade the Art Workshop to Lv. 23
- Tap Michelangelo at the Art Workshop, then tap him again.
- Tap the spaceship.
- Tap the paint palette.
- Choose the colours in the right order.
Note: The colour order is not recorded yet.
First Citizen of Civ
- Prerequisite
- Watch ads 5 times
- On your village screen, tap the billboard.
- Tap the billboard inside that screen.
- Open the Astranook and go to the Genesis Tools screen.
- Tap the group in the hot tub on the floor.
Conqueror's Approval
- Prerequisite
- Complete chapter 35 of the Campaign and upgrade the Archer Barracks to Lv. 22
- Reward
- Bloodstained Laurel Collection
- Tap the pigeon on the Barracks roof.
- Open your mailbox and collect the letter.
Warriors of Freedom
- Prerequisite
- Obtain the heroes Ragnar, William Wallace, and Robin Hood
- Reward
- 3 Resource Selection Chest
- Find William, Ragnar, and Robin arguing outside the Copper Mine, and tap them to start the dialogue.
- When the dialogue ends, press and hold one of them. A gold ring lights up outside the Quarry, the Copper Mine, or the Blacksmith.
- Drag each hero onto the ring that lights up.
Rainbow's Guidance
- Prerequisite
- Reach the Enlightenment Age
- Find Lagertha in the Enlightenment Age wonders.
- Solve the puzzle in the Glass Workshop.
- Go back to the Enlightenment Age wonders.
Ocean Voyage Blocks
- Prerequisite
- Reach the Steam Age and unlock New York in the Grand Voyage
- Unlock New York.
- Tap the giant ship at New York.
Undelivered Photos
- Prerequisite
- Reach the Electrical Age
- Find the snowman on the train tracks in the Bazaar.
- Solve the puzzle.
The Apple is Innocent
- Prerequisite
- Civilization level reaches 18
- In Odin's milestone, a snake has stolen an apple.
- An apple seems to have grown on the world tree.
Da Vinci's Palette
- Prerequisite
- Advance to the Renaissance Age
- Open the aircraft that landed by the mountains and get ready for the colourful gas clouds.
Pre-Easter Trouble
- Prerequisite
- Participate in: Where is the Bunny?
- Look! Nike has come to town, and she's even changed into an Easter outfit.
Egyptian Tales
On the Egypt map and in Duat. Many of these form a chain: finish one to unlock the next.
Curse of Tutankhamun
- Prerequisite
- Build the Sphinx
- Tap the person behind and above the Sphinx, the one with a shop icon.
- Tap the person again.
- Put the jars back in order by the number of rows on them: beige, blue, orange, tallest.
The Great Void
- Prerequisite
- Build the Great Pyramid
- Find the (…) bubble next to the Great Pyramid.
- Find the pile of stones with a flat rectangular stone lying down, in the far bottom-right corner of the map, on the same riverbank as the Sphinx.
- Drag the flat stone sideways.
- Tap the sleeping man.
Mummy Powder
- Prerequisite
- Build the Mummy Temple (Mummy Hall)
- Tap the small grey thing on the right side of the dock.
- Tap the man with a blood-drop icon on the left side of the Cat Pyramid.
- In Duat, tap the (…) icon at the bottom right of the map, across the river from the Sphinx.
Pyramid Thunder
- Prerequisite
- Build the Red Pyramid
- Talk to the villager with the (…) icon next to the Red Pyramid.
- Complete the puzzle. The colours from left to right are red, green, yellow, blue, the same order as the tools above the rack of jars.
Book of Thoth
- Prerequisite
- Research 100 technologies
- Tap the scroll on the rock at the far left of the living world map, below the left corner of the bottom-left quadrant.
- In the Inner Hall of the Pray menu, tap the black cat.
Scorpion King
- Prerequisite
- Unlock 15 plots
- Tap the tumbleweed at the bottom centre of the map, below the bottom-right quadrant.
- Tap the scorpions until all 3 are gone.
- Tap the villagers.
- Tap the villager with the floating scorpion icon.
Divine Lamp
- Prerequisite
- Build the Dock
- Tap the sparkling pile of stones just right of the right corner of the bottom-right quadrant.
- Tap all the glowing fireflies.
- In Duat, tap the mummy lying sprawled on the ground at the bottom right of the map.
Horn of War
- Prerequisite
- Upgrade the Fish Pond to Lv. 50
- Tap the villagers with the (…) icon at the bottom left of the map, beyond the bottom-left quadrant.
- North-east of the Red Pyramid site, tap the horn in the sand 20 times until a villager appears.
- Tap the villager.
Mystic Script
- Prerequisite
- Build the Mudbrick Yard
- South of the bottom-right quadrant, a cat is sleeping on a brick.
- Drag the cat off the brick onto the golden ring.
Cleopatra's Stele
- Prerequisite
- Build 6 Small Dwellings
- Find the standing stone slab with a face on it, south of the river and to the right of the bottom-right quadrant.
- Tap the slab.
- Brush the sand off by dragging.
Unlucky Mummy
- Prerequisite
- Enter Duat 20 times
- Tap the mummy floating in the river close to the dock (bottom right of the dock).
- In the Inner Hall of the Pray menu, tap Sobek, who has a (…) icon.
- Talk to the floating mummy again.
The Two Ways
- Prerequisite
- Build the Meidum Pyramid
- Tap the pile of sand in front of the Cat (Meidum) Pyramid.
- Brush the sand aside.
- In Duat, tap the fishing boat.
- Tap the clump of weeds for the man on the fishing boat.
- Back where the sand was, tap the villager with the (…) icon on the right side of the Cat (Meidum) Pyramid.
Screaming Mummy
- Prerequisite
- Enter Duat 10 times
- In the Mummy Hall, tap the mummy peeking out from behind a pillar at the top right.
- In the Sphinx, tap any cat. Under the windowsill is a cat house with a small fish-shaped thing in it. Tap the fish.
- Go back to the Mummy Hall and tap the peeking mummy again.
- Put the fish on the scale.
- Tap the screaming mummy.
Wooden Bird
- Prerequisite
- Research 50 technologies
- Tap the 3 floating bits of wood in the water just below the left side of the Red Pyramid.
- Complete the puzzle. Tap a piece to rotate it; a piece in the right position can no longer move.
- Tap the wooden bird on the mountain to the left of the Red Pyramid.
Jackals vs Dog
- Prerequisite
- Enter Duat
- In Duat, tap the floating dog icon next to the Cat Pyramid.
- At the top left of Duat, tap the jackal standing at the gate of the big mausoleum.
- At the bottom left of Duat, tap the jackal next to the jackal statue with a staff.
- Drag the bone next to him into the splashing pond.
- Drag the disc next to him into the splashing pond.
- Tap the floating dog icon next to the Cat Pyramid again.
Routine Inspection
- Finish first
- Jackals vs Dog
- Prerequisite
- Reach Egypt construction level 6
- Pet the three cats on three Duat buildings, in this order:
- Chubby Orange on a Dried Fish building: tap it, then swipe all over the cat on the petting screen.
- Siamese in a Natron Pool: swipe all over the cat on the petting screen.
- Little Baldy on a Ritual Water Court (only at construction level 6): swipe all over the cat.
- Tap the jackal between the Cat Pyramid and the Great Pyramid.
Cat Tax
- Finish first
- Routine Inspection
- In Duat, find the queue of mummies in front of Anubis at the entrance to the temple left of the Red Pyramid.
- Choose the feather (the option furthest right).
- Do it again.
Express Pass
- Finish first
- Cat Tax
- Find your Fish Pond in Duat.
- Tap the cat placard on it.
- Complete the puzzle.
Occupational Hazard
- Finish first
- Express Pass
- Find the Mummy Hall in Duat and tap its dialogue icon.
- Complete the puzzle. A piece is in the right spot when it can no longer move.
- Then mess the puzzle up again by moving everything out of the box.
Civet Coffee
- Finish first
- Occupational Hazard
- Osiris lies collapsed at the top right of the temple west of the Red Pyramid in Duat. If he is not there, leave Duat and come back; if he is still missing, restart the game.
- Collect three things, in any order:
- A vase of clean water: find the vase near the Red Pyramid in the living world and drag it into the river.
- “Coffee beans”: the coconut tree in the bottom-right corner of the map, next to the river.
- Salt: the sparkling Natron Pool.
- Find the Fish Pond in the living world and tap the “coffee bean” icon twice. If the cat is not on the pond, leave Egypt and come back; if it is still missing, restart the game.
- Tap the coffee icon floating above one of your Large Dwellings.
- Add the ingredients in this order: water, coffee, salt.
- Find Osiris again in the temple west of the Red Pyramid in Duat.
- Give him the coffee.
Osiris Is All
- Finish first
- Civet Coffee
- Go to the temple west of the Red Pyramid in Duat. Osiris is at the bottom centre. If nobody is there, leave Duat and come back; if still not, restart the game.
- Clean up the organs by swiping.
- Tap the icon on a Hieroglyph Press in Duat.
- Sort the puzzle. A piece is in the right place when it can no longer move.
- Osiris is holding court in front of the Sphinx in Duat. Answer:
- “Hail the Ferryman”
- Portrait of Anubis (cute)
- Give the Scarab its own stone ball
Direct Hire
- Finish first
- Osiris Is All
- Go to the temple west of the Red Pyramid in Duat. Osiris stands at the entrance next to a giant poster of his face.
- Still in Duat, find the mummy to the right of the bottom-left quadrant, where the river forms a T. Answer:
- Get a bigger coffin
- Lie inside to find the problem and fix it
- Find the mummy hiding behind the stone slab in the bottom-right corner of Duat, where Cleopatra's Stele is. Answer:
- Have him carefully feel his own head
- Have everyone on site raise both hands
- The next mummy is on top of the Great Pyramid in Duat. Answer:
- Shove him back into place
- Stand between them
- Back at the temple west of the Red Pyramid in Duat, tap the queue.
Sit-Ups
- Finish first
- Direct Hire
- Talk to Osiris inside the temple west of the Red Pyramid in Duat.
- Talk to Osiris on the roof of that temple.
- Talk to Osiris in the cat house on top of the Great Pyramid in Duat.
- Talk to Osiris at the Anubis statue at the far south of the map.
Sleep Guide
- Finish first
- Sit-Ups
- In Duat, tap the cat next to the fishing icon on the dock.
- Tap Osiris next to that cat.
- Complete the puzzle. Tap a piece to rotate it; a piece in the right position can no longer move.
Stone Pet
- Finish first
- Sleep Guide
- In Duat, tap the white stone in the river south of the Red Pyramid 15 times.
- Tap Osiris inside the temple west of the Red Pyramid.
- Tap the (…) icon next to Osiris.
- Tap the icon on one of your Mortar Workshops in Duat.
- Put the jars in order of the circles on them: 1, 2, 3, 4 from left to right.
- Talk to Osiris in the temple again.
- Tap the bone under the table.
- Tap Osiris on the temple roof.
Anecdote steps by Autumn (Ice, S12), shared on Discord and last added to on 10 September 2026, with help from Kraes, Zee, and Spitzell on Egyptian Tales and from Popo. Pictures and three further general anecdotes from community collections as of 18 September 2026. The artwork belongs to the game’s publisher and is shown here for free, non-commercial community guides. The wording was tidied without changing the steps; where the guide has a gap, a note says so.




























