It's possible that the wheel was invented by copper miners in the Carpathian Mountains up to 6,000 years ago, according to a modeling study that uses techniques from structural mechanics. When you ...

The earliest evidence of the invention of the wheel pops up around 5,500 years ago in Uruk, ancient Mesopotamia, which has to go down as the most innovative society in human history. These guys, best ...

The wheel, archaeologists largely agree, was invented around 6,000 years ago somewhere in Mesopotamia. Together with the axle it revolutionized human technological history and in time led to the ...

Archaeologists in New Mexico have uncovered what could be trace marks left by the oldest known hand-drawn carts, predating ...