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ARTIFACTS Ancient Egyptian art is divided into many era’s. Many Egyptian gods were painted and sculpted as animals, or as humans with animal heads. Egyptians considered all animals to be holy. Anyone who killed an animal on purpose would be punished with death. Cats that had died would be embalmed and buried. Egyptian art from any time period has the same style. There were rules for making the artwork. The style is called frontalism. For thousands of years, this was the one and only style of making art. The rules are different for drawing animals and slaves from the way pharaohs and gods are drawn. A lot of archeologists have found a lot of these artifacts in the tombs that they have dug up. Most of these artifacts were found in the tombs of the pharaohs. ART In ancient Egypt, the Egyptians believed in life after death. Death was the only way into a better life in the next world. In this next world the dead would live pretty much the same way they did in th