Harvard Art Museums has a collection of #pigments made from lapis lazuli hauled across continents, cow urine, and even ground-up Egyptian mummies. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/02/n...
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The stories behind these amazing colors in a Cambridge museum will blow your mind - The Boston Globe
“Mummy brown” is a pigment used by artists long ago. It contains ground-up Egyptian mummies. For real.