Do not look now that we go to the neighborhood bookstore and find whatever kind of paint we want in whatever color we can imagine. Once, in order for the color to be intense and vibrant, whether for paintings or fabrics, IT TOOK EFFORT!

People had to use poisons, cow urine, crushed beetles, rare precious stones, and a whole bunch of other laborious (and often dangerous) methods! Meanwhile, imagine how difficult other processes were that have now been unbelievably simplified.

BACK TO MUMMIES! From the 16th century in Europe, there was trade in mummies from Egypt because they used the tissues of embalmed bodies to relieve everything from toothaches to intestinal diseases! So MANY mummies arrived in Europe, either whole or in pieces, to be sold for medical purposes.

Of course, besides their healing properties, mummies caused admiration and many people took "pieces" of them to display in their collections!

Naturally, a commodity with such demand was profitable. So, when the stocks of authentic mummies started to dwindle, they began mummifying bodies of slaves and criminals!

So, after trading the mummy, they decorated it in their homes, made imitations from more recently deceased bodies, and sold it as ancient, CONSUMED it, or inhaled it as medicine. They probably had no problem using it to make PAINT as well.

This paint (the mummy brown) is said to have made the color rich but also quite "sithru" so it could be used on glass, for shading, and for coloring HUMAN SKIN in paintings - WHAT IRONY!

However, most of the artists and people who worked with this paint were not very satisfied with its result, so thankfully it was gradually buried in the *cringe* pages of human history.

The "mummy brown" color still exists today as a shade, but fortunately, it is made from various minerals.

Perhaps it's not very cool to use the bodies of ancient Pharaohs to make colors and paint.