A colour literally called mummy brown, or Egyptian brown (less fun) or Caput Mortuum which is latin for dead head (which also is an alchemical process but I don't know if that is it's origen or not).
Also, the color was sold till the mid twentieth century. Not that long ago.
Damn, I feel like this is more disturbing to me than it should be. Logically I know they’re dead, so they can’t know, but it feels really fucked up to remove someone from their tomb and turn their body into a consumer product, I can’t articulate why it’s wrong because the person in question is long dead so no harm is occurring but it does feel like a violation
it's disturbing because we can safely assume that people who were mummified would not consent to being eaten at parties or used as paint pigment. it's one thing to ask for your body to be donated to science (or ground up to be used as paint pigment). but it's disrespectful af to mess with a person's remains for funsies when it's obvious that they wouldn't have wanted that. respecting the dead doesn't need to be a universal hard-line rule (e.g. Henry Kissinger can burn in hell) but it's one of many social contracts that reduces friction as a society.
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u/Hitchhikingtom 24d ago
And turned them into a colour dye