User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 11-02-'16 – No Assassin's Creed game in 2016 confirmed by Ubisoft/@comment-4374396-20160215110243/@comment-13471981-20160215112635

It lends it more credit, but anything is technically still up in the air until Ubisoft confirms it. I think the setting of Ancient Egypt can probably be assumed to be correct though.