Nara cart wheel claimed to be oldest in Japan

SAKURAI, Japan - A section of a wooden cart wheel shown to the media at the Sakurai Burial Property Center in Nara Prefecture on Dec. 4, 2001 is claimed to be the oldest of its kind in Japan. A city education board official guessed the wheel, unearthed from the Kodachi burial mound in Sakurai, may date back to or before the Askua Era (694-710).

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