The Last of Us - Artifacts

Artifacts are documents left in the world that can be found during Joel and Ellie's journey and give insight into the world around you. There is a total of 85 Artifactes in the game to be found and they can be viewed in the collectibles menu.

The Quarantine Zone: 20 Years Later

Boston Q.Z. Map

Obtained automatically when you gain the backpack and Handgun.

Military Pamphlet

Obtained automatically when you gain the backpack and Handgun.

The Quarantine Zone: Beyond the Wall

Note to Brother

After defeating the Runners in the spore infested basement, head upstairs and check the room to the left instead of crossing the planks and proceeding.

The Quarantine Zone: The Slums

Drafting Notice

After walking through the bus and witnessing the brawl to the right, but before talking to the man by the gate, check the ground straight ahead.

Wanted Poster

Just beyond the Drafting Notice to the left of the people looking into the Quarantine Zone.

Warehouse Key

Defeat all of Robert's men when you encounter them for the first time and check the final body for this.

Shipping Manifest

By the railing on the wharf, before heading into the warehouse.

Dock Notes

Inside the docks warehouse to the right of the ship behind a crate.

The Outskirts: Outside

Tess's List

After meeting up with Tess again at Joel's apartment, check his living room coffeee table for this.

Patrol Routes Map

After taking the elevator down in Joel's apartment, turn right and search near the water heaters.

The Outskirts: Downtow

Evacuation Leaflet

After heading under the overpass, climb up the destroyed road and find this by a street lamp on the right.

Field Ops Log

On your wait up the stairs in the Boylstone building, grab this from the military soldier's corpse.

Firefly Map

On the dead Firfly by the escalator, past where you first obtain the Molotov Cocktail, in the subway.

Note to Derek

Inside a drawer, under the register, in the store in the area with all the Clickers.

The Outskirts: Museum

Medical Pamphlet

After using the desk to jump over the semi-truck, turn around and check inside for this.

The Outskirts: The Capitol Building

Firefly Orders

After exiting the museum and crossing the plank, go down the steps to find this on a corpse.

Smuggler Note

In the subway area after killing some soldiers and swimming through the flooded subway, meet up with Ellie and get this off the corpse nearby.

Bill's Town: The Woods

Pills Note

After killing the two Clickers and before boosting Ellie over the gate to enter the main street, head to the second floor of the building on the right to find this.

Bill's Town: Main Street

Note to Bob

At the end of main street on the barbed wire.

Perimeter Note

Inside the Marquis Music Store in the back room.

Note to Rachel

Instead of heading through the double Nail Bombed gate, turn the other way in the back alley and open the door to an apartment to find this inside.

Bill's Town: Safehouse

Bill's Map

On a table in Bill's safehouse.

Fences Note

In the small office in the corner of Bill's safehouse.

Hunters Note

Follow Bill out of the bar and upstairs, enter the room off to the side to find this.

Bill's Town: Graveyard

Bomb Note

Inside the church, check Bill's room off to the right to find this.

Boy's Diary

In the house full of static Clickers, go upstairs to the kids room to find this.

Bill's Town: High School Escape

Note from Frank

In Frank's hideout, find this in Frank's bedroom.

Note from Frank (2)

Hand over the note to Bill, who throws it on the ground, and then pick it up again.

Siphon Hose

Obtained during the cutscene as you leave Bill's Town.

Pittsburgh: Alone and Forsaken

Tourist Manifest

After the initial fight with the Hunters, enter the garage at the end of the street to find this.

Ambush Map

In the second floor of the garage, head into the door at the end of the hall to find a workbench and this on the wall.

Lost Hill Notes

In the Pittsburgh Quarantine Zone, after climbing over the bus, find this in the booth to the right.

Traitors Flyer

After defeating the three Hunters in main area of the Pittsburgh Quarantine Zone, turn around and grab this on the wall between the large tent and the entrance to the zone.

Abandon Zone Note

Enter the building in the Pittsburg Quarantine Zone via the first alley and find this in the first office on the right.

Applicant Checklist

Enter the building in the Pittsburg Quarantine Zone via the first alley and find this on the left, under the stairs.

Lost Areas Map

Inside the shiv door on the second floor of the main building in the Pittsburgh Quarantine Zone.

Mother's Letter

After exiting the Pittsburgh Quarantine Zone and reach the main streets again, use a shiv on the door behind the blue truck to find this inside.

Stash Note

Search the second floor of the Rivers Cafe to find this on a small counter.

Pittsburgh: Hotel Lobby

Note to Staff

After using the ladder to reach the second floor, cross the destroyed staircase by hugging the left wall to get this on the other side.

Hotel Keycard

Found in the control room of the sewers, it is required to advance the story and reconnect with Ellie.

Pittsburgh: Financial District

Fireflies Note

Inside the freezer in Don Fiocchi Subs in the corner of the Financial District.

Final Attack Note

After exiting the main area of the Financial District and heading upstairs, two Hunters will head downstairs. Check the office where they came from to find this.

Mob Attack Note

In the trap infested section of town, head to the building on the right and upstairs where three Hunters patrol. This note is on the other side of the area behind the receptionist's desk.

Truck Note

In the building by the "Death for Freedom" grafitti, before boosting Ellie up to the fire escape.

Pittsburgh: Escape the City

Trial Note

Inside the conference room of the architecture office.

The Suburbs: Sewers

Boat Note

Inside the control room of the boat on the beach.

Sewer Notes

After Ellie heads through th vent to get you into the storage room check the far corner for this on a table.

Trading Note

In the storage room near where you knock the pallet into the water below is a room with two Clickers and this.

Rain Catcher Note

After defeating the Runners and Clickers through the gate, head right to a utility room.

Cornered Note

After defeating the Runners and Clickers through the gate, jump the barricade and check the room on the left.

Kid's Drawing

After defeating the Stalkers and Clickers in the survivors living area, check a bookshelf in the school area.

The Suburbs: Suburbs

Looting Note

After eaching the suburbs, enter the second brick house on the right and go upstairs and check the back bedroom.

Father's Note

After eaching the suburbs, enter the brick house on the second street and check the upstairs bedroom.

Survivors Note

After eaching the suburbs, enter the last house by the dead end and enter the front bedroom on the second floor.

Matchbook

After eaching the suburbs, enter the last house by the dead end and check the desk on the third floor.

Tommy's Dam: Hydroelectric Dam

Power Plant Map

Before approaching the gate to the power plant, check the guard booth nearby.

Plant Schematics

Inside the dam's conrtol room on the table after bandits have invaded.

The University: Go Big Horns

Sniper's Nest Log

Before jumping the barricade in the university, enter the building on the right and check the top floor balcony.

Wall Panel Note

After checking the panel that requires you to start the generator in the room of Runners, grab this on the wall next to the panel.

UEC Campus Map

After entering the dormitory by ducking under the furniture blocking the doorway, check the counter in the main office.

Student's Journal

Inside room 202 of the dormitory.

Newspaper Clipping

Inside room 209 of the dormitory.

The University: Science Building

Office Recorder

In the storage room on the left of the third floor inside the science building.

Fungal X-Rays

After heading through the "Exit" for a scene, head into the lab and find this on the left.

Lab Recorder

After seeing the monkey in the lab, find this in the same room on a table to the right.

Firefly's Recorder

Obtained automatically through the story events.