The Birth of the Wheel

It’s the most important invention in human history… yet when it was first created,

it wasn’t used for transport at all. In fact… it began with fire, mud,

and patience. The wheel the symbol of progress started as something far more humble.

Over 5,000 years ago, in ancient Mesopotamia, humans were perfecting a skill shaping

clay into pots. But it was slow. Painfully slow. Then one day, an unknown craftsman

tried something different: a round, flat disk that could spin faster than

hands ever could. The potter’s wheel was born not for travel, but for art.

That spinning piece of clay was the first controlled rotation in human history.