Megalith

A megalith is a structure, monument, or complex erected from one or more roughly hewn, giant stone slabs. They are invariably associated with prehistoric human cultures, with the most famous example being Stonehenge. Megalithic constructions on a smaller scale include singular standing stones and stone circles, which are stones clustered together in a circular arrangement.
==History==
During the mid-1st century BCE, the Medjay Bayek of Siwa frequented the stone circle outside of Siwa with his son, Khemu. During their stays at the circle, they discussed the stars, the gods, and whatever was troubling Khemu's mind.Assassin's Creed: Origins – Bayek's Promise Following Khemu's murder in 49 BCE,Assassin's Creed: Origins – The False Oracle Bayek sought out and visited numerous stone circles throughout Egypt, as well as the Great Sphinx in Giza, as Khemu had wanted to do. Years later in 38 BCE, Bayek found two more stone circles in Sinai, and reminisced about Khemu there as well.Assassin's Creed: Origins – The Hidden Ones
In the late 5th and early 6th centuries, the Irish saint Brendan of Clonfert traveled the British IslesAssassin's Creed: ValhallaAssassin's Creed: Valhalla – Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories and to Vinland, drawn to many standing stones due to his connection to the Isu Aita trying to find his "beloved". He left his musings at each monument, and centuries later, the 9th century Viking shieldmaiden Eivor Varinsdottir of the Raven Clan would also find these locations and the notes Brendan left there. Eivor later briefly travelled to Ireland,Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Wrath of the Druids where she saw examples of various standing stones.
==Examples of megaliths==
===Ancient Egypt===
*Amun
*Ankh
*Apis
*Divine Lion
*Goat Fish
*The Great Twins
*Hathor
*Horus
*Osiris
*Pisces
*The Scales
*Serqet
*Sobek
*Taweret
===British Isles===
*Aescforda Stones, Nottinghamshire
*Aveberie Megaliths, Hampshire
*Cosintun, Leicestershire
*Devil's Quoits, Gloucestershire
*Lord and Lady, Cambridgeshire
*Eorthburg Hlaw, Nottinghamshire
*Medeuuage Megaliths, Kent
*Mycel Fold, Shropshire
*Rodestan Monolith, Yorkshire
*Rollendritch, Gloucestershire
*Seahenge, East Anglia
*Stonehenge, Hampshire
*Fairy Glen, Isle of Skye
===Vinland===
*Tionontaté:ken
==Behind the scenes==
;Assassin's Creed: Origins
The Stone Circles in Assassin's Creed: Origins seem to be based on archaeo-astronomical structures found at in the Nubian .
The Hathor Stone Circle and the Serqet Stone Circle in the game seem to have been accidentally switched, as one of the prayers to Serqet used by her cult states, "Serqet, Selqet, Selkit we perform these rites in the shadow of your stone circle. In the caves beneath your stars."Assassin's Creed: Origins – Taste of her Sting However, the cave near the House of Serqet is actually under the Hathor Stone Circle.
Each constellation in the game lines up with one of the found in the night sky. These constellations align with the Greek or Babylonian rather than the Egyptian s.
==Gallery==
Guang-yu-tan-ACO-CA-StoneCircle2.jpg|Concept art of stone circles
Guang-yu-tan-ACO-CA-StoneCircle3.jpg|Concept art of stone circles
ACO Stone Circle - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of a stone circle
ACV Sacred Beech Standing Stones - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of standing stones
ACV Standing Stones - Concept Art by Raphael Lacoste.jpg|Concept art of standing stones
ACV Rodestan Monolith.png|Rodestan Monolith
ACV Seahenge.png|Seahenge
ACV Aveberie Megaliths.jpg|Aveberie Megaliths
ACV Medeuuage Megaliths.jpg|Medeuuage Megaliths
ACV Tionontatéken.jpg|Tionontaté:ken
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Origins 
**The Hidden Ones
*Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
**Wrath of the Druids
**Assassin's Creed Crossover Stories
==References==
fr:Cercles de pierres
zh:立石
Category:Monuments