Thursday, October 29, 2015

Mummy Brown and Other Historical Colors – Veritable Hokum



  Everything © Korwin Briggs
How did humanity discover how to make colors?

The quick answer is that we, even as cave-dwellers, ground up everything we could get our hands on. Comic creator of Veritable Hokum and historian Korwin Briggs recently assembled a chart that demonstrates the incredible millenniums-long process that resulted from that urge. Many of the paint colors that we take for granted today were actually difficult to come by for most of human history.
Often because the stuff we ground up to make colors was poisonous and kind of killed us!   - From Tor.com 
See the Infographic and read more:  



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