The Story of Art, EH Gombrich, Art for Eternity Death is not a friendly topic. Nevertheless, mortality and its afterlife get credit for the origin of many fascinating stories of art. Very few civilizations in have taken on the art of mortality as magnificently as the Ancient Egyptians. The Pyramid of Giza, c. 2613–2563 (National Geography) Egypt. The land of the pyramids “tell us of a land which..