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Armenian Mummy Red Light is a reddish brown pigment containing over 35% hematite. This pigment is from iron ore deposits in the Lori, Armenia. Mummy is known among artists in Russia as "mummy," because it resembles the pigment highly prized by artists of the 18th and 19th centuries. The historical pigment, which had its source in such organic matter as bitumen and .