Ancient Egyptians created paintings and sculptures, mostly about everyday life. Some of them were put into the tomb of a person when they died and were thought of as a guide for the afterlife.

In the early period, people carved hieroglyphs on walls. Later on, they used a form of ink to write on papyrus .

Papyrus with a religious text
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Egypt’s pyramids are among the oldest buildings in the world. About 90 of them still stand on the Nile River. The three large pyramids at Giza belong to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Great Pyramid is about 140 metres high and was built with over 2 million blocks of limestone. Next to it is the Great Sphinx, a masterpiece of Egyptian sculptors. It is a stone statue with the head of a person and the body of a lion.


Great Sphinx of Giza
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