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Just a little topic about the appreciation of egyptian art. Here you can talk about pretty much anything alongs the lines of art from the Ancient times. Did you like it? what was your favorite style, which types of reliefs in carvings did you like, what did you think of the paintings, colors used, etc.

I love Egyptian art whee I drew the Eye or Horus and I want to draw Ramses's II battle scene (in Abu Simbel) I have it on papyrus whee

I went to the Eternal Egypt exhibit when it came through my area a few years back, and we saw the original papyrus of Ani. They had a couple of sections including the Weighing of the Heart, and it was astounding to see it in person! The whole thing looked like it had been colored in with glitter gel pens, heh. And it seemed like a large selection of the papyri or statues on display there had glittery elements- that led to a lot of joking in my group about the ancient Egyptian origin of glitter, and possible applications of glitter paints and sprays in ancient art.^_^ An egyptologist I know recently told me that was because they'd mixed gold dust and mica into the inks- it really was glitterized!