User blog comment:The Brave Wolf/Assassin's Creed: Origins - New Rumor May 9th 2017/@comment-413232-20170511231304/@comment-18014300-20170512001141

As I just said, even in a period like the New Kingdom, with Hatshepsut's reign, or the war against the Hyksos, or Akhenaten's radical attempt to change the Egyptian religion and the political turmoil that ensued after, the sources are scant enough that Ubisoft would still have a massive amount of freedom. What we know of these events is murky enough that they would just serve as general settings; we barely know any specific details.

Even if they wanted an early or obscure time period, it's a bit too extreme to choose one where we won't get to explore anything from history whatsoever because we literally know of nothing that happened there. It would be a complete blank slate, unless that is truly what they want, but then it won't really feel like we are exploring history at all. They could've at least chosen the 4th dynasty, where the Great Pyramids were built, which is practically the only major detail we know of it, meaning there's still a great deal of freedom to work with there. The creative freedoms argument is odd considering how much freedom there is in all of Egyptian history up until Cleopatra's reign.