I'd stone it!
Posted on 11/22/2010 9:34:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The reconstructed version of the 5,000-year-old skeleton was unveiled during a ceremony attended by head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization Hamid Baqaei and Iran's ambassador to Italy Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Hosseini.
The woman, whose face has been reconstructed by a group of Iranian and Italian researchers, is famous for carrying the first prosthesis to have been used by man, ISNA reported.
This is a great scientific achievement which shows that Persians used innovative medical equipment 5,000 years ago, Baqaei said during the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
The unique discovery was the result of excavations in the Burnt City in 2006, when archaeologists found an artificial eyeball on a 1.82-meter- tall female skeleton, much taller than ordinary women of her time, and dated back to between 2900 and 2800 BCE.
(Excerpt) Read more at presstv.ir ...
Video at this link (after short commercial) http://www.irannegah.com/Video.aspx?id=2166
A couple questions:
Why was she interred on her side? This is unusual in most cultures.
How did they conclude she was white?
Why is the eye so outsized? Was it intended just for burial?
It was sewn into the soft tissues of the socket with a golden thread.. There would have been no reason to do this post mortem.
Thanks for that link. It’s quite explanatory. The image of the reconstructed face is lovely.
I'd stone it!
I imagine having gold veins in her eye would have caught my eye too.
for home
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