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The ancient girl with the golden eye: 5,000 year old priestess found Iran

Submitted by coldrum on Saturday, 03 March 2007  Page Views: 14281

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Country: Iran The body of a strikingly tall 5,000-year-old woman with an artificial golden eye has been discovered in Iran.

Archaeologists said the woman was a female soothsayer or priestess and would have transfixed those around her with her eyeball, making them believe she had occult powers and could see into the future.

The 25-30-year old Persian woman, who was almost 6 feet tall, was also buried with an ornate bronze hand mirror so she could check her startling appearance.

Italian and Iranian archaeologists made the discovery at an ancient necropolis at Shahr-i-Sokhta in the Sistan desert on the Iranian-Afghan border.

Archaeologist Lorenzo Costantini said the artificial eye was clearly not intended to mimic a real eye. He said: " It must have glittered spectacularly, conferring on the woman a mysterious and supernatural gaze."

The golden eyeball is engraved with lines coming out of a central circle like rays of light.

It is a half-sphere with a diameter of just over an inch and made from lightweight material thought to be derived from bitumen paste, which is painted gold.

There are two tiny holes drilled on either side of the eyeball, through which a fine thread held it in place.


Historians said an imprint on the woman's eye socket proved she wore the golden eye in life, rather than having it placed in her eye at burial.

From The Daily Mail.
Contributor Bio for coldrum: Based in Milkyway, contributing since 2002. Favourite site: Avebury.

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