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The pigment "Mummy Brown" was once made from ground up Egyptian mummies, and only ceased to be produced in the 1960s. How many tubes of paint could be created from one mummy, and were later batches of the colour (in the 1940s-60s) still being made with human mummies?

by /u/ausAnstand in /r/AskHistorians

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