World’s Oldest Shoe Is 5,000-Year-Old

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The world's oldest shoe was discovered in Armenian cave and is around 5,500 years old.

The artifact is older than famous Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge, according to researchers.

The leather shoe is around a woman's size seven and made for a right foot.

"It is astonishing how much this shoe resembles a modern shoe!" said a famous designer.

Stuffed with grass, perhaps as an insulator or an early shoe tree, the 5,500-year-old moccasin-like shoe was found exceptionally well preserved thanks to a surfeit of sheep dung-during a 2010 dig in an Armenian cave.

The prehistoric shoe is compressed in the heel and toe area, likely due to miles upon miles of walking. However, the shoe is by no means worn out.

It is made of a single piece of leather shaped to fit the wearer’s foot. Leather laces crisscross through numerous leather eyelets, and it was worn on the right foot.

It could have easily fitted a man’s foot during that era. It is believed these shoes were probably quite expensive shoes and of very high quality.

Written by Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com