Oldest Wheel News

World's Oldest Wheel Found?
March 10, 2003 By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
A 5,100- to 5,350-year-old wooden wheel recently was found in Slovenia buried
within an ancient marsh, according to a press release issued earlier this
month by the Slovenian news agency STA.
The team of archaeologists who found the wheel claims it is 100 years older
than the world's current tied record-holders, both said to be from Europe.
"The wheel is surprisingly technologically advanced, much more so than the
later models found in Switzerland and Germany," said Anton Veluscek, an
archaeologist from the Archaeological Institute at the Slovenian Academy of
Arts and Sciences who was a member of the team that found the wheel.