The tone of Egyptomania Situated so far from the Nile valley where ancient Egypt flourished, could there be buildings, artistic and/or literary works in Brazil inspired by it? To this question, extensive research, still in progress, which began in 1995, answers yes! The legacy of ancient Egypt in this country appears more in the form of the images they created, used by different spheres of the labour and social world, where they circulate and are produced both by people from the intellectual and economic elite and by the rough and/or dispossessed.