Scary Tales of Pigments Past, Part 1

Season 4, Episode 1,   May 16, 2022, 07:13 PM

Unnwrap the rich brown paint popular among the pre-raphelite brotherhood known as Mummy Brown. If your skin is crawling it’s for a good reason. This is the name of a color of paint. Couldn’t they have just called it sand brown? Sandstorm tan, flooded Nile soil? Something else? Nope, mummy’s the word for this rich brown paint. There’s no getting around it. The pigment for Mummy Brown a.k.a. “Egyptian Brown” paint was literally made up of ground up Egyptian mummies, both humans and cats.

Dig up the disturbing story of the many desecrated mummies of ancient Egyptians, and their feline friends, who were meant to be undisturbed. It’s not just a scary story but the terrifying reality of Mummy Brown paint. “A few odd limbs…” The color: Mummy Brown has a seriously haunting story.

Fair Use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwXfvfPy6fc PBS special: King Tut Special posted by Darryl Kinson starting at right around four minutes into the video. 

The photo of Tutanchamun's death mask - This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. By Myk Reeve, December 26, 2002 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutanchamun_Maske.jpg

Audio: Music and Sound FX credits: Fresound.org: TheoTer, Papanin Kasettratat, jepe009, szegvarti, Humanoid9000, breviceps

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