5,000-year-old shoe discovered in Swiss lake

By Fatih Erel

GENEVA (AA) - A Neolithic shoe dating back to around 3300-2800 B.C. has been discovered in a lake near Zurich, according to local reports.

The shoe was found by divers in Lake Greifensee at Maur near Zurich, the Swiss News Agency SDA-ATS reported on Tuesday.

The Stone Age sites on the shores of lakes around Zurich are some of the most important archaeological sites in Europe.

According to SDA-ATS, the shoe is an ingenious manufacturing of Neolithic clothing and made out of bast, a material made from certain types of tree bark that is rarely used today.