Found: Oldest Leather Shoe. Wanted: Matching Left
By PAM BELLUCK DownloadThink of it as kind of prehistoric Prada: Archaeologists have discovered what thay is the world's oldest known leather shoe. 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 then Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, scientistes say. Leather laces crisscross though numerous leather eyelets, and it was worn on the right foot; there is no word on the left shoe.