WORLD'S OLDEST WHEEL FOUND

"Working on a site in the Ljubljana marshes, Slovenian archaeologists last year uncovered a wooden wheel some 20 kilometres southeast of Ljubljana. Austrian experts have established that the wheel is between 5,100 and 5,350 years old, which makes it the oldest wooden wheel in the world ever found."

They also found an axle with the wheel and, nearby, even a wooden canoe. The Ljubljana marshes have been rich in archeological finds, undergoing exploration since the mid 19th century. There have been innumerable objects found which are up to 6,500 years old.

"The wheel found in the remains of a pile-dwelling settlement, has a radius of 70 centimetres and is five cm thick. It is made of ash and oak. The wheel is surprisingly technologically advanced, made of two ashen panels of the same tree. The axle, whose age could not be established as precisely, is about as old as the wheel. It is 120 centimetres long and made of oak. Both the wheel and the axle had probably been scorched, in order to protect them against pests. Slovenian experts surmise that the wheel they found belonged to a single-axle cart. The aperture for the axle on the wheel is square, which means that the wheel and the axis rotated together and, considering the rough ground, the cart probably had only one axle."

The artifacts are currently undergoing scientific study and preservation. It should be noted that these items appear to be at least 500 years older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

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