The World's Oldest Leather Shoe

This is the kind of stuff I find far more fascinating than the latest star in rehab reported via TMZ or similar.  From Science Daily, what's believed to be the world's oldest leather shoe has been found in Armenia.

The shoe came out of an archeological dig in a cave in the Armenian province of Vayotz Dzor on the borders of Armenia, Iran, Nakhichevan and Turkey. The shoe has been dated back to 3,500 BC - the Chalcolithic period - making it 5,500 years old; that's 1,000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and 400 years older than Stonehenge in England. And you thought you had old footwear tucked away somewhere in a box in your garage?


Lead research author Dr Ron Pinhasi, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland said, It is not known whether the shoe belonged to a man or woman," but he noted than its small for today's sizes (European size 37; US size 7 women) but, "could well have fitted a man from that era."

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