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Artists have used all sorts of weird stuff to get their desired effect. Tangentially related fun fact: the word mummy actually comes from a substance made from
by r3trohack3r 4y ago
Artists have used all sorts of weird stuff to get their desired effect. Tangentially related fun fact: the word mummy actually comes from a substance made from ground up corpses used in paints and medicine.
Mummy brown: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
When you look at a lot of the paintings from the Pre-Raphaelites, there are people in there.
- BerislavLopac 4y agoThe world mummy ultimately comes from Persian word mum, which means wax. In Arabic form mumiya it was used for the bituminous embalming substance.
- r3trohack3r 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia You're partially right. It didn't start being called "mummy" until it was associated with harvesting the substance from embalmed corpses IIUC > Beginning around the 12th century when supplies of imported natural bitumen ran short, mummia was misinterpreted as "mummy", and the word's meaning expanded to "a black resinous exudate scraped out from embalmed Egyptian mummies".