In Assassin's Creed: Origins, a ship captain and one of his crewmembers are shown playing a board game that uses two pawns on a round board. What game is this?

by IlluminatiRex

As well, what are the rules? How do you win? They played a couple of turns on screen and I wasn't really sure what was going on.

I thought this was an interesting detail that they put in the game, assuming its an actual historical board game.

Here is an image of the two characters playing the game.

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Related question: if they are playing Mehen, are there other “forgotten” games with unknown rules but copious game boards? Are there references to play for these kinds of lost games?