New Evidence Reveals Who REALLY Invented the Wheel
4th September 2025
These people make a very plausible case, using both historical and physical evidence.
The invention of the wheel was a significant step in the advancement of human society, to the point that ‘reinventing the wheel’ has become a common phrase. Neolithic societies, although they had tools and fire, the previous steps in technological advancement, sometimes didn’t make it to the wheel–the first nations of North America, for example, for all the sophistication of the MesoAmerican civilizations, lacked this key feature. (If they had, I suspect that Cortez would have encountered an unpleasant surprise in 1519.)