What are the major characteristics of Egyptian sculpture and painting throughout most of ancient Egyptian history?
many of the paintings and art work that make up the egyptian culture have several features. They all usually tend to be elaborate, have many hierroglyphics on them have some of the gods that the epyptians worshiped on them and they had gold and were engraved. many were very complex and had special symbols or markings on them in sculptures to tell what rank class and importance the person was ie the hands crossed holding the anckh and another symbol to show that the sculpture was of a deceased pharoh.