Assassin’s Creed Origins’ hieroglyphs passes this scholar’s spell check

Assassin’s Creed Origins’ hieroglyphs passes this scholar’s spell check

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https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/16/16483082/assassins-creed-origins-heiroglyph-translation

A scholar who studied ancient Egypt during the reign of Cleopatra VII — the setting of Assassin’s Creed Origins — decoded hieroglyphs used in some frames and screenshots promoting the game and, whaddaya know, found that Ubisoft designers really did their homework. There’s a message in the hieroglyphs the game uses, and it’s accurate to the period represented in the game.

This is interesting because in adventures set in ancient Egypt, hieroglyphs are so easily be presented as gibberish or filler and a mainstream audience probably wouldn’t know the difference. While Claire Manning points out that there are some filler characters in the following image, it still translates from Middle Kingdom hieroglyphs, which she studied as her honors subject at university in Australia.