golden-eyed priestess of Balochistan

A good mystery story is fun:

(AGI) - Rome, 21st November - In the Balochistan desert, a city burned down long ago, a mysterious necropolis, a five thousand-year-old tomb, the skeleton of a woman, with a golden eye. This is the real-life mystery of a discovery in Iran, at Shahr-i Sokta on the border with Afghanistan, of the remains of a shaman - the custodian, according to tradition, of secret lore. The discovery was made at the end of 2006 by Iranian archaeologists under the direction of M. Sajjadi from the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research, with assistance from an Italian mission which has been wording in the area since 1967 on funds supplied by the Foreign Office, the Ministries of Heritage and the Museum of Oriental Art of Italy's Institute for Africa and the Orient(ISIAO) formerly ISMEO the institution founded by that great explorer of that territory, Giuseppe Tucci. But the story of the priestess with the golden eye is still there to be written, and a new mission will be on its way on 30 November to carry on with Shahr-i Sokhta's investigations, to re-start analysis of the eye prosthesis in collaboration with their Iranian colleagues. The woman was 1 metre 82 centimetres in height with African physiognomy, a pronounced jaw, perhaps dark-skinned. "The find was made by Iranian archaeologists working in the vast necropolis - Lorenzo Costantini, head of the Italian mission to Shahr-i Sokta, told AGI. The city is located on the frontier with Battriana which was a cross-roads for caravans coming from the West, headed for the Orient. The burial, according to my calculations, is 5,000 years old". The gold eye was set in the right socket. And this is how the scientists found her. They have tried to find similar finds in archaeological history, but without success.