<P> Ancient Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture, architecture and other arts produced by the civilization of ancient Egypt in the lower Nile Valley from about 3000 BC to 30 AD . Ancient Egyptian art reached a high level in painting and sculpture, and was both highly stylized and symbolic . It was famously conservative, and Egyptian styles changed remarkably little over more than three thousand years . Much of the surviving art comes from tombs and monuments and thus there is an emphasis on life after death and the preservation of knowledge of the past . </P> <P> Ancient Egyptian art included paintings, sculpture in wood (now rarely surviving), stone and ceramics, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, and other art media . It displays an extraordinarily vivid representation of the ancient Egyptian's socioeconomic status and belief systems . </P>

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