Jul 31, 2022
Areni-1 shoe, Vayots Dzor province, Armenia,
A 5,500-year-old leather shoe that was found in 2008 in excellent condition in the Areni-1 cave.
It is a one-piece leather-hide shoe, the oldest piece of leather footwear in the world known to contemporary researchers.
While small, approximately a woman's U.S. and Canada size 7, European size 37, or UK size 6, he stated that "the shoe could well have fitted a man from that era". The shoe laces were preserved as well.
The discovery was made by an international team led by Boris Gasparyan, an archaeologist from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
Credit: Gfoeller Renaissance Foundation
