5500 Years, The Oldest And Most Expensive Leather Shoes Are In Armenia.

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This is a right foot shoe. It is well preserved.

The shoes were found in a cave in Armenia and Iran and on the border of Turkey. When they were unearthed, the shoes were stuffed with grass.

University of Oxford and University of California at Irvine determined their age by radiocarbon dating. The age of these grass and leather is between 5387 and 5637 years.

That is, its history can be traced back to 3500 BC.

The stable, cool and dry natural conditions in the cave prevent it from being encroachment, plus a thick layer of sheep manure covered in the caves, which provides a solid seal for the articles, so that shoes can not be rotten for thousands of years.

Kirk, a scholar at the University of Ireland, who led the archaeological activities, said that there were not many objects that were found in ancient archaeological activities to display ancient human daily life. This shoe can give people an opportunity to see the ancient society and ancient human activities and dress in ancient times, and so on. Ron Pinesi,

The earliest leather shoes were shoes worn by Ozzy, a mummy discovered in the Alps in 1991, which is now kept in Italy.

Ozzy lived in the the Alps for about 5300 years from 5128 years to 5375 years, slightly later than the shoes he found.

Leather is very soft when the oldest shoe is unearthed, but leather is beginning to harden after touching air.

The leather shoes will be sent to Switzerland or Germany for processing and then sent back to Armenia for exhibition.