Ancient Egypt was a historical civilization in Northern Africa that lasted from 3150 BC to 30 BC. The boundaries of the period are set by the beginning of the dynastic monarchs (pharaohs) who ruled Egypt and Rome's conquest of Egypt.

The aesthetics of Ancient Egypt have influenced art and design for thousands of years. In recent centuries it was most prominent during the Victorian Era through the Egyptian Revival style in design and architecture, due to early archeology in Egypt. In the 1920s, after Howard Carter and his team opened the tomb of King Tutankhamun (King Tut), Egyptian art influenced the Art Deco movement, causing an 'Egyptomania'.

There were revivals of the aesthetic of Ancient Egypt during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Architecture and objects in this style are called "Neo-Egyptian" or "Egyptian Revival". The style was popular mainly at the beginning of the 19th century, due to Napoleon Bonaparte's attempt to conquer Egypt, which led to an international Egyptomania. During this period, Neoclassicism (a movement that tries to revive Greco-Roman art), more specifically the Empire style, was the mainstream aesthetic. Because of this, some mixes of Neoclassicism and Egyptian Revival were created. An example of an Egyptian Revival structure is the Egyptian entrance of the Hôtel Beauharnais in Paris, circa 1804, L.E.N. Bataille. Later in the 19th century, some Academic artists made history paintings with scenes from Ancient Egypt, like The Egyptian Widow from 1872 by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, or Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners from 1887 by Alexandre Cabanel.

The style had another wave or popularity in the 1920s, thanks to the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen, opened in November 1922. Because of this, there are some examples of 1920s and 1930s Art Deco mixed with Neo-Egyptian motifs. The aesthetic of Ancient Egypt mixed well with Art Deco due to the fact that both use simplified motifs, geometric shapes, symmetry and repetition. The combinations of intense colours found in Ancient Egyptian jewellery were reused in the 1920s.

Ancient Egypt is a popular setting for fantasy films, especially those involving time travel and magic. Supernatural and horror movies make use of the "Mummy's Curse" trope.