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Covering an area of 151 hectares, Shahr-i Sokhta was one of the world’s largest cities at the dawn of the urban era. The settlement appeared around 3200 BCE. The city had four stages of civilization and was burnt down three times before being abandoned in 2100 BCE. The site was discovered in 1967 and has been continually excavated since the 1970s by Iranian and Italian archaeological teams; new discoveries are reported from time to time. {Link without Title}


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  • In December 2006, archaeologists discovered the world's earliest paste. The surface of the artificial eye is covered with a thin layer of gold, engraved with a central circle (representing the iris) and gol lines patterned like sun rays. On both sides of the eye are drilled tiny holes, through which a golden thread could hold the eyeball in place. Since microscopic research has shown that the Eye Socket showed clear imprints of the golden thread, the eyeball must have been worn during her lifetime. The woman with the artificial eye was 1.82 m tall (6 feet), much taller than the ordinary women of her time. She was aged between 25 and 30 and had a dark, exotic skin. Her Africanoid cranial structure point to an origin in the Arabian Peninsula. With her shiny golden eye, she must have been a striking figure, perhaps a Soothsayer or Oracle . The woman's skeleton has been dated to between 2900 and 2800 BCE. 5,000-Year-Old Artificial Eye Found on Iran-Afghan Border


  • The oldest known Backgammon , Dice and Caraway seeds, together with numerous metallurgical finds (e.g. slag and crucible pieces), are among the finds which have been unearthed by archaeological excavations from this site. {Link without Title}




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