The invention of wheel was perhaps the second most important event in the evolution of mankind, after probably the discovery of methods to tame fire. However, the origins of the wheel have been widely ...

Many theories have tried to explain when and where the wheel and axle were first invented. A new study examines a relatively recent theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains created the first ...

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 ...