sentences:  During the Renaissance, scholars proved that translating bituminous mummia as mummy was a mistake, and physicians stopped prescribing the ineffective drug.Lastly, artists in the 17–19th centuries used ground up mummies to tint a popular oil-paint called mummy brown.The etymologies of both English "mummia" and "mummy" derive from Medieval Latin "mumia", which transcribes Arabic "mūmiyā" "a kind of bitumen used medicinally; a bitumen-embalmed body" from mūm "wax (used in embalming)", which descend from Persian "mumiya" and "mum".