When Was The Wheel Invented

                                     

It is not known exactly when the wheel was invented. The sumerians used wheels about 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia.they first use it as a potter's wheel and few centuries later as a wheel on carts.

                        

In their excavation in northern and western Europe Archeologists have found remains of discs from the stone age.

The wheels of sumerians were wooden disc which were fixed on an axis with spikes.the first wheel with spoke also originated in Mesopotamia.

Around 2000 BC sumerians built these lighter wheels for their war chariots as did the Egyptians around 1600BC.