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Mummy brown- ground up mummies used as pigment (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

was a rich brown bituminous pigment with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber and raw umber in tint.

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Mummy brown was extremely popular from the mid-eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. However, fresh supplies of mummies diminished, and artists were less satisfied with the pigment's permanency and finish.

By 1915, demand had significantly declined

What the fuck. This is corpses, right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If you would like to hate the history of Europe even more: This insane desecration of human corpses only began after the use of mummies for medicinal cannibalism fell out of fashion when it was discovered to be based on a mistranslation of Arabic texts.