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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Paint Week: âMummy Brownâ Was A Paint Made From Actual Mummies
Description: This week weâre 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)Tutankhamunâs âcursedâ trumpet that stirs âdeadly conflictâ has arrived in London (ClassicFM)Our Patreon b...