The shoe, made of cowhide and tanned with oil, is about 5,500 years old, older than Stonehenge and the pyramids.
Most likely it was worn by a woman with size 7 feet.
The shoe was discovered by scientists excavating in a huge cave in Armenia. A doctoral student, Diana Zardaryan, noticed a small pit of weeds. Reaching down, she touched two sheep horns, then an upside-down broken bowl. Under that was what felt like “an ear of a cow,” she said. “But when I took it out, I thought, ‘Oh my God, it’s a shoe.’ To find a shoe has always been my dream.”
Still puzzling her, however, is a box found nearby marked "Mr. Grog of Beverly Hills."

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