The Unusual History of Every Thing

The Life & Death of Mummy Paint


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On this episode, we talk about how artists used dead people to make their paintings come alive. We’ve done a podcast or two on corpse medicine and how people of long ago used mummies as cures. And the dark liquid the body oozes out during the putrefaction process, which ranges from dark purple to brown, made people in the Middle Ages take notice.

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The Unusual History of Every ThingBy Melanie Dellas and Karen Lacy

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