Assassin’s Creed Mirage has 18 Dervis’ Artifact Locations. Finding all Dervis Artifacts unlocks the Curio Collector trophy and achievement. They are also required to get 100% completion in all districts for the Explorer trophy & achievement (fully explore all territories).
Artifacts only spawn after meeting Dervis in the story. This happens relatively early after Main Quest: Nur’s Contact (quest after unlocking the Hidden Ones’ Bureau). Then they appear on the map with golden pickpocket icons 
. They can also be tagged with the eagle, undiscovered collectibles will show as a yellow beam of light when flying around.
They are all pickpocketed from civilians. Some of them move around and aren’t in fixed spots. They are always in the same area and follow a scripted path but the exact spot can slighty vary. They do show on the compass (top of screen) when nearby and also appear on the map when getting close to them. If one doesn’t show up, use the eagle and look for yellow beams of light to tag them.
To make things easier you can enable Guaranteed Pickpocket in Gameplay Settings. This makes all pickpocketing attempts successful and you don’t need to input the QTE to succeed.
Nothing is missable, everything can still be collected after the story.
Collectibles Overview:
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Harbiyah
Dervis’ Artifact #1: Scandinavian Brooch
In the fields, carried by a man standing by the stall between two buildings.
Dervis’ Artifact #2: Money Cowrie
Looted from someone shoveling hay.
Dervis’ Artifact #3: Aksumite Amulet
Pickpocketed from a woman stirring colors with a stick, outside the Dyeing Factory.
Dervis’ Artifact #4: Buddhist Votive Plaque
Pickpocketed from a guy standing in a yard.
Abbasiyah
Dervis’ Artifact #5: Small Chinese Box
Pickpocketed from a woman walking around The Four Markets.
Dervis’ Artifact #6: Tang Censer
Pickpocketed from a guy working with bricks.
Dervis’ Artifact #7: Round Moon Plaque
Pickpocketed from a woman standing by the river, north of the Hammam.
Dervis’ Artifact #8: Olibanum
Pickpocketed from a man walking around east of The Great Bimaristan (is walking so location is slightly moving but he’s always around that area).
Karkh
Dervis’ Artifact #9: Ivory Chess Piece
Pickpocketed from NPC walking around between Monastery of the Virgins & House of Poulterers.
Dervis’ Artifact #10: Jade Comb
Pickpocketed from NPC in a market area south of Harbor Camp.
Dervis’ Artifact #11: Glass Weight
Pickpocketed from NPC working with carpets.
Dervis’ Artifact #12: Decorated Shell
Pickpocketed from NPC east of The Bazaar.
Round City
Dervis’ Artifact #13: Pyxis
Pickpocketed from NPC south-east of Shurta Headquarters.
Dervis’ Artifact #14: Coptic Censer
Pickpocketed from NPC south of Harem.
Dervis’ Artifact #15: Sillan Christian Cross
Pickpocketed from NPC west of Postal Bureau (may be standing on a roof).
Wilderness
Dervis’ Artifact #16: Staurotheke
Pickpocketed from an NPC south-west of Winter Palace.
Dervis’ Artifact #17: Kissi Penny
Pickpocketed from an NPC standing in the desert, 150 meters east of the named area “Excavation Site”.
Dervis’ Artifact #18: Byzantine Bracelet
Pickpocketed from an NPC in the village of Jarjaraya.
That’s all of the Artifacts in AC Mirage. For all other collectible types refer to Assassin’s Creed Mirage Collectible Guide.
Question – If I killed the civilian rather than pickpocking – it shall still count right
As long as you pickpocket the corpse then yes.
i pickpocketed all 18 artifacts but can’t give it to Dervis, the game still thinks that i have 6 out of the last 9. any tips?
I have the same issue
I have encountered a seemingly rare bug where i cant pickpocket one of the artifacts (no purse shows up in eagle vision nor is there a prompt to pickpocket them), do you perhaps know of a solution? Thanks for the great guide as always
I have this too except I did pickpocket it but then died and reloaded a save,. the icon is showing and it shows as not collected on the map but I had the item in my inventory and it wouldn’t let me pick pocket them again