This Is The World's Oldest Leather Shoe 3.79K Adrian Chen 06/09/10 06:40PM Filed to: artifacts artifacts Shoes Archaeology Archaeologists found this 5,500 year-old shoe in an Armenian cave. The ~size 7 women's leather shoe was preserved under a layer of sheep poop. Researchers speculate it was a "really fresh" throwback to a 5,515 year-old model. [NYT]