The Dark Origins Of Mummy Brown Paint 😨

They pulled chunks of flesh from the

mummy, then crushed it into a powder.

Next, they added tree sap to create a

smooth brown cream. The result was a

paint called mummy brown, and painters

used it for flesh tones, and it became

incredibly popular. But when the paint

makers ran out of mummies, their supply

ran low and lost popularity, and

eventually they stopped producing the

paint. When artists discovered what it

was made out of, they were horrified.

One famous painter even buried his tube

[music] in the garden out of respect for

the dead.