The oldest known winery is some 1,500 years older than the Great Pyramid.

4100 BC · 2560 BC · apart: 1540 years

It was found in Armenia's Areni-1 cave, home of the oldest shoe, where wine was made around 4100–4000 BC.

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• The Areni-1 shoec. 3500 BC · Vayots Dzor, Armenia. In 2008 Armenia's Areni-1 cave produced a shoe cut from a single piece of hide, with laces and stuffed with grass: the oldest known leather footwear. It is roughly a European size 37, and the same cave later revealed the world's oldest known winery.

Prehistory · 26th century BC

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