Side notes on European "uses" of mummies in 16th / 17th centuries . . . "mummy brown" is a paint originally made with substances + ground-up-mummy-corpses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown) . . . people ate mummy-flesh-based concoctions as medicine (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-o...).