I couldn’t pass this one up. Don’t ask me why! It reminded me of that old joke:
A man needs to get an artificial eye due to a work injury.
The eye doctor shows him a glass eye and a wooden eye. He can only afford the wooden eye so he buys it.
He is embarassed to have a wooden eye and doesn’t socialize.
He hears of a handicap dance and desides that he would risk going, thinking that no one would make fun of him at the dance since they have disabilities too.
When he gets to the dance he sees a beautiful young lady with a peg leg that no one has asked to dance.
He walks up to her and says, “Would you like to dance?” She says, “Would I?!” He yells back at her, “PEG LEG!!!”
Iran publishes bulletin on ancient artificial eye found in Burnt City
Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Province has published a bulletin about the artificial eye, unearthed in the historical Burnt City site.
“Published by Sistan-Baluchestan cultural heritage office, the bulletin contains information about the results of the tests performed on the eye,” said head of the Burnt City archeology team, Seyyed Mansour Seyyed Sajjadi.
The Persian-English bulletin was published at the start of the 12th phase of Burnt City archeological excavations.
The 5,000 year-old eye was unearthed two years ago and is believed to be the oldest prosthetic in the world.
Made of natural tar and animal fat, the eye was placed inside the left eye socket of a 28- to 32-year-old woman.
A leather pouch was also found beside the female skeleton appears to have been used to keep the eye when it was removed.
The 5000-year-old Burnt City is located near the northeastern city of Zabol and spans an area of over 300,000 hectares.
Four civilizations have lived in the city which was burnt down three times and not rebuilt after the last fire.
The world’s oldest animated picture, dice and backgammon set, and caraway seed has been found in Burnt City.
