It is not known who created the…

3357 BCE to 3214 BCE

It is not known who created the wheel and axle, which certainly was a conscious invention and not a technological accident, dating from about 3000 BCE.

The oldest wheel publicized by archaeologists was found in 2002 in Ljubljana.

Austrian experts at the time established that the wheel was between fifty-one hundred and fifty-three hundred and fifty years old and is therefore at least a century older than those found in Switzerland and southern Germany.

The wheel was made of ash and oak and had a radius of seventy centimeters.

The axle is one hundred and twenty centimeters long and made of oak.

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Ljubljana Slovenia View →

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Chalcolithic Balkans culture View →

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