Forget about Egyptian Blue and its techno-wonders, did you see the link to Mummy Brown? http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brown.html http

Forget about Egyptian Blue and its techno-wonders, did you see the link to Mummy Brown? http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brown.html http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brow... Far more fascinating. tl;dr: for several hundred years, Europeans traded in Aegyptian mummies (real ones and various imitations thereof) first for apothecary medicine (ergo consumption), then as paint pigment. Horatio must be spinning in his grave ("there are more things,... etc.").