ARCHAEOLOGISTS who uncovered the world?s oldest leather shoe in a cave in Armenia hailed the 5,500 year-old discovery yesterday.
The cow-hide shoe dates back to 3,500 BC, making the footwear 1,000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and 400 years older than Stonehenge in Britain.
The discovery was made by a team of international archaeologists, while Dr Ron Pinhasi of Ireland?s University College Cork said the shoe?s great age was revealed in laboratory tests in Oxford and the US.
The shoe was in perfect condition, thanks in part to the layers of sheep dung in the cave where it was found.
