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Side notes on European "uses" of mummies in 16th / 17th centuries . . . "mummy brown" is a paint originally made with substances + ground-up-mummy-corpses (http
by nwatson 11y ago
Side notes on European "uses" of mummies in 16th / 17th centuries . . . "mummy brown" is a paint originally made with substances + ground-up-mummy-corpses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown) . . . people ate mummy-flesh-based concoctions as medicine (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/?no-ist http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-o...).
- steve19 11y agoWow, it blows my mind that dried human flesh was ground up to make paint. More about it here: http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brown.html http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brow...