What is Mummy Color

Answer 1

 

Let's be very clear, "mummy color" is most definitely not the same as a mother color.

Rather, the color "mummy" was made from ground-up Egyptian mummies. Yes, that's right, embalmed humans were made into paint. Mummy brown was used in European art in the 18th and 19th centuries, "from the 1800s until the 1920s"¹.