The invention of the wheel has long been considered a major breakthrough in human history. But now, the records may have to be rewritten – as the earliest evidence of wheel use has been pushed ...

The study emphasizes that the wheel did not arise from an isolated invention but as a gradual innovation, influenced by environmental challenges and economic needs. Incremental changes built on ...

We don’t know whether Europe’s ancient wagon technology was wheeled in from elsewhere or invented independently. But there is another line of evidence that the wheel was established in Europe ...