It is interesting how the Etyptian level, Shifting Sand Land, clearly has <Indian classical music>, with sitar, <tanpura> and <tabla>:
* https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/aq0wry/origin_of_egyptiansounding_music/
* https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/198848-super-mario-64/75607593
Apparenty we don't know what Egyptian music would have sounded like exactly.

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 Music of Super Mario 64

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