{"id":17119,"date":"2021-08-23T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T09:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=17119"},"modified":"2021-08-25T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T10:26:24","slug":"egyptian-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=17119","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian (Virtual) Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admin1 has been playing <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Origins<\/em>, a vast open-world game set in Egypt, circa 57BC. Some effort has gone into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/05\/assassins-creed-origins-recreated-ancient-egypt-ubisoft\">making it accurate<\/a>, with consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2018\/mar\/27\/assassins-creeds-origins-discovery-tour-virtual-museum-ancient-egypt-ubisoft\">historians and linguists<\/a>, and it&#8217;s undeniably impressive.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an eagle&#8217;s-eye view of Alexandria at sunset, taking in the Hippodrome, the museum, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library_of_Alexandria\">famous library<\/a>, the theatre, docks and ending up at the Ancient Wonder <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria\">Pharos lighthouse<\/a>, rediscovered in 1968.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"AC Origins 2021 08 22 16 57 11\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OEE864nE9Tg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are also pyramids and the Sphinx&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17122\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AC-Origins-2021-08-09-20-42-48Sphinx.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AC-Origins-2021-08-09-20-42-48Sphinx.png 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AC-Origins-2021-08-09-20-42-48Sphinx-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>&#8230;and, of course, cats:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17123\" src=\"http:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AC-Origins-2021-08-21-14-34-34cat.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AC-Origins-2021-08-21-14-34-34cat.png 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AC-Origins-2021-08-21-14-34-34cat-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Admin1 is reading <em>The Chalk Circle Man <\/em>by Fred Vargas and Admin2 is reading <em>The Other Mother<\/em> by Michel Bussi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admin1 has been playing Assassin&#8217;s Creed Origins, a vast open-world game set in Egypt, circa 57BC. Some effort has gone into making it accurate, with consultant historians and linguists, and it&#8217;s undeniably impressive. Here&#8217;s an eagle&#8217;s-eye view of Alexandria at sunset, taking in the Hippodrome, the museum, the famous library, the theatre, docks and ending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=17119\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Egyptian (Virtual) Holiday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[19,20,29,25,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17127,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions\/17127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}