dsc.discovery.com — Around the time that the great pyramids were built in Egypt and Stonehenge was erected in England, a young woman living in what is now Iran lost an eye and was fitted with a prosthetic device. The find supports speculation that such prosthetics were available to a fortunate few in the ancient world. The newly found eye looked like the real thing.
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whitemaDec 20, 2006
Umm. "Looks like the real thing." Well maybe if the criteria include spherical and inserted into eyesocket. Beyond that.... I'll just stick with my ping-pong ball prosthetic.
modiggs1976Dec 20, 2006
Why make Ready to Wear a caption? Of all the captions, they need to use a crappy Robert Altman film?
thegcinfoDec 20, 2006
Wouldn't it be funny if it was found out that some people were joking around and put the thing in the eye socket just to see if scientists would get all worked up about finding a prosthetic eye in a mummy?
midnightbrewerDec 20, 2006
You could argue that prosthetic implies that it should function as a full replacement eye, including vision. Artificial simply means that it's not natural, not that it restores sight. Should we start referring to artificial flavoring as prosthetic flavoring?
webcrumbDec 20, 2006
Because only modern civilisation knows how to brush their teeth? People are not thick. They were not thick, they will not be thick. I hate the assumption that people in any time period were less intelligent, especially when we can't work out now how the hell they built stuff then... if anything, we are less intelligent /now/.
mbondrDec 20, 2006
Did it have a fork stuck in it?
yuravianDec 21, 2006
See, thing is, sometimes, things get old. When they get old they 'deteriorate'. That means that their physical properties may change, including color, shape, size... It may have looked just like an eye at one point.