(Photo from the NY Times)

“Perfectly preserved under layers of sheep dung (who needs cedar closets?), the shoe, made of cowhide and tanned with oil from a plant or vegetable, is about 5,500 years old, older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, scientists say. Leather laces crisscross through numerous leather eyelets, and it was worn on the right foot; there is no word on the left shoe.” (via The New York Times article)

Unbelievable!  It’s hard to believe that this shoe is intact after all these years!
This latest discovery is the world’s oldest leather shoe and is equivalent to a woman’s size 7 shoe.

Learn more about the area the shoe was found in and more here.