Honestly one thing I like about Assassin’s Creed is how they send you back in time but highlight that even that past lived in the shadow of further legendary past.

AC: Ancient Greece you visit tons of Attic ruins-already, and at least one crumbled Minoan palace, in the Egypt one it’s the very dawn of the Roman Empire and the pyramids are already ancient. Those and the AC: Vikings one with the English settlement still speaking Latin were more Roman than AC: Rome which was set in the Renaissance amid ruins, with Leonardo da Vinci as your gadget guy

(I do like how for the American Revolution one after the Ezio trilogy they teased Benjamin Franklin like he would be the equivalent and instead you just overheard him talking about the appeal of fucking older women)