Perforated pebbles discovered in Israel may roll back the time of the wheel invention by thousands ... origins of the wheel to around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, where people used wheels to make ...

Before this discovery, the first examples of wheels dated back to around 4000BC in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, which were used for pottery. Around 500 years later during the Bronze Age ...

Like the sailboat, the wheel revolutionised the movement of people, livestock and goods, not to mention pottery making and milling. Experts can't pinpoint exactly when and where it was invented, but ...