Editorial: This Issue At A Glance

It is a great privilege for the staff of the Iranian Journal of Ophthalmology (IRJO) to have the opportunity to publish a variety of subjects in ophthalmology and ophthalmic sciences which we receive from all over Iran and our medical centers. We do hope to extend this privilege to cover all Middle-East, Asia and even other continents. Our journal covers all kinds of subjects which makes it more colorful. In this issue of journal Oskooei et al1 (Pages: 68-70) report the discovery of a spectacle made of bone which has been found on the face of a skeleton of a young Iranian woman in a grave 3 to 4 millennia BC. The discovery was achieved by Professor Charles Berny in Yanik Tappeh in Eastern Azerbaijan Province, in 1962. Approved by UNESCO authorities this finding is of a very high importance since the history of the use of spectacles has still remained unsolved. Marco Polo in his trip to China on 12th century AC has indicated that Chinese did wear spectacles which they claimed that the technology has been brought from Middle-East. Yanik Tappeh spectacle opens a long discussion that spectacles were used at Middle-East even at the Iron era. It is of high interest to focus on few points published in this issue of IRJO.