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Egyptian's believed that if they showed their entire bodies in a picture, someone in the duat would copy their image and make clones. If you want more information on Egypt in a non boring way, I recommend reading The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan.

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Simply because Egyptians dont know how to make it 3 dimensional, that is why if you can see the eye level is different and the arms and the feet. On the early times they dont know how to make pictographs human like, thats why they emboss it to make it look like 3D even if it's in 2D.

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To show all the body parts.

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