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[Archaeology]
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2/21/2007
7:01:59 pm EST
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5,000-Year-Old Artificial Eye Found On Iran-Afghan Border
Author: The Times Source: Fox News
Title: 5,000-YEAR-OLD ARTIFICIAL EYE FOUND ON IRAN-AFGHAN BORDER
A 5,000-year-old golden artificial eye that once stared out mesmerisingly from the face of a female soothsayer or priestess in ancient Persia has been unearthed by Iranian and Italian archaeologists.
The eyeball — the earliest artificial eye found — would have transfixed those who saw it, convincing them that the woman — thought to have been strikingly tall — had occult powers and could see into the future, archaeologists said.
It was found by Mansour Sajjadi, leader of the Iranian team, which has been excavating an ancient necropolis at Shahr-i-Sokhta in the Sistan desert on the Iranian-Afghan border for nine years.
Italian archaeologists said yesterday that the prophetess had also been buried with an ornate bronze hand mirror, which she presumably used to check her “startling appearance”.
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| Couldn't Be Inanna | Feb 21st. at 10:36:58 pm EST
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
If she was 25-30, an entire 5,000 years ago, Inanna was a little over half that. Their meeting would have been mutually impressive, however.
Abscesses from the Gold, might be why there was a conversion to Glass. Didn't they have such things in India?
Arawn
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