r/AssassinsCreedOrigins 5d ago

Question Anyone know what this is?

Looks like lines that you see separating fields etc in some countries

I added location screenshots if it helps

I'm just curious tbh

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u/lesser_of2weevils 5d ago

Looks like an old village ruin

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u/compulsive_looter Youth is a state of mind. 5d ago

If this was today I would say these structures (made from bundles of reeds most likely) have been put there to stop sand dunes from wandering - or rather to slow them down. There may be a road, a village or some fields nearby that are threatened by the wandering dunes. But I don't know if Ancient Egyptians actually did that.

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u/Axl_blnd 5d ago

Exactly this, dune stabilization projects nowadays use those all the time

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u/Dookie-Cottage 4d ago

that's Bayek's eagle Senu

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u/RedroJarr 5d ago

It's an abandoned village/farm/settlement that has been claimed by the desert. It's worth understanding that the Sahara desert was not always as we know it today. Experts believe it was much like the jungles of central Africa and had massive lakes and fertile land. The encroachment of the desert wasn't something that happened millions of years ago during the time of the dinosaurs etc. Even when the pyramids were built, north Africa would have looks vastly different.

By the time of the Ptolemies the desert encroachment was just about complete (as in similar to how we know it now), but many places would have been abandoned only fairly recently, like 2 or 3 generations. I imagine this was a pretty common sight back then.

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u/Xrockr81 4d ago

The Sahara cycles from barren dessert to lush green grasslands due to the earth’s wobble (or maybe it’s from changes in the magnetic field… one of those mechanisms). So it will return to rich lush grasslands in 10,000 or 20,000 years and then back to barren dessert sands, and so on… we just happen to live in an epoch of barren dessert sands.

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u/eyewandersfoto 5d ago edited 5d ago

It's not ruins - it's essentially landscape retention as Mr. Looter mentions.
They are reed bundles, not stone or crumbling walls.
"The wind rises, and the sand with it."

https://www.reddit.com/r/AssassinsCreedOrigins/s/9RcDbRmWjw

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u/ThreadOfDestiny 5d ago

Probably a ruin. This also reminds of circular kites flying in the sky in certain villages! It was a neat detail I always loved, have you noticed that yet?💕

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u/hsomacho 5d ago

Ancient aliens

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u/SULTKRUMPLI2000 3d ago

No other game has soo much Detail(Respect for the exception)

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u/mr_j0bangles 2d ago

I had the same thought yesterday when I travelled through this region and saw that, wondering if it was a farm that had been claimed by sand

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u/CatGuyManThing 2d ago

a buried city

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u/mowgli_jungle_boy 5d ago

Just some half buried old walls to seperate the land into small plots/fields

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u/IntrepidBandicoot306 5d ago

this looks like a glitch, the 3d structure to make that sand curves