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The oldest artificial eye in the world belongs to an Iranian woman who discovered it in the ancient city government in the burning city of 6,000 years ago. Shahr-i Sukhta or the “Burnt City” is one of the symbols of the great civilization of Sistan and Baluchestan, where it is also an ancient city, it is one of the largest ancient cities on the Iranian plateau.

The oldest artificial eye

The world’s first skull surgery and the first artificial eye!

Archaeologists discovered the skeleton of a girl during excavations at Shahr-i Sukhta in 1976. The operation is a deep triangular incision visible on the right side of the skull, and researchers believe that the skull is an operation to treat “hydrocephalus” in the skull.

Research on the skull shows that the patient died a few months after the operation and the cause of her death is unclear. Regardless, the skull is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in history.

Archaeological investigations show that this artificial eye belongs to a woman between 28 and 32 years old, who was not a wealthy person due to the simple glᴀsses discovered in the tomb. In addition, archaeologists discovered a leather frame with an artificial eye in the tomb.

This eye was made of bitumen mixed with some kind of animal fat, and in this artificial eye, the smallest capillaries in the eyeball have gold wire less than half a millimeter in diameter. This artificial eye is now in the Southeast Asia Museum in Zahedan.

The Oldest Artificial Eye

Where is the city burned by The Oldest Artificial Eye?

Sistan and Baluchistan, as the main center of civilization in the eastern part of the Iranian plateau, is valuable not only for understanding the origins of the culture and civilization of the Iranian plateau, but also for exploring the cultural, social and economic relations between ancient cultures and civilizations.

The subcontinent of India and Central Asia with the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia is another important factor, since without an understanding of the civilizing state of this part of Iran, the identification of the social and economic relations of the old world is indeed incomplete.