Paint Week: “Mummy Brown” Was A Paint Made From Actual Mummies

This week we’re replaying some of our favorite episodes about the stuff painters use. In this episode from February 2022, the story of Mummy Brown, a pigment made by combining white pitch and myrrh with the ground-up bits of actual mummies. Plus: seventeen years after the opening of King Tut's tomb, a musician played a trumpet found there for a radio broadcast. Mummy Brown (Florida State University Department of Art History)A Pigment from the Depths (Harvard Art Museums)Tutankhamun’s ‘cursed’ trumpet that stirs ‘deadly conflict’ has arrived in London (ClassicFM)Our Patreon backers will be hailed as heroes for centuries and centuries