If you lost a shoe back in 3490 BC, you're in luck: The world's oldest shoe dating back 5,500 years has been discovered.
A woman's size four, it was made from a single piece of cured cowhide a thousand years before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built - and four hundred years earlier than the erection of Stonehenge.
Amazingly, it is still in perfect condition - even including the laces - thanks to the stable, cool and dry conditions of the Armenian cave in which it was found.
Dr Ron Pinhasi, an archaeologist at the University College Cork, said: "It is an amazing find. We thought we were looking at something just a few hundred years old but it turns out to be oldest shoe ever found."
The shoe was packed with grass, but it is unclear whether this was to keep the foot warm or to maintain the shape of the shoe, much like the modern shoe-tree.
It's amazing how a good sensible shoe never goes out of fashion.
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now, I'm telling you.
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