A leather shoe that is a thousand years older than the Great Pyramid and preceded Stonehenge by 400 years has been found, perfectly preserved, in a cave in Armenia. It´s the oldest leather shoe in the world.
The shoe is older by a few centuries than the surprisingly complex footwear of Otzi the Iceman, the well-preserved mummy found in Austria in 1991. One researcher says it suggests that over 5,000 years ago, specialty trades were already developing.
"I´m convinced that even 5,300 years ago, people had the equivalent of a cobbler who made shoes for other people," said researcher Petr Hlavacek of Tomas Bata University in Zlin.
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