Wheel

Spoked wheel of reconstructed Celtic funerary wagon, 550 BCE, Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave, GermanyThis Ljubljana Marshes Wheel with axle is the oldest wooden wheel yet discovered dating to Copper Age (c. 3130 BCE)A depiction of an onager-drawn cart on the Sumerian "War" panel of the Standard of Ur (c. 2500 BCE)Solid wheels on a heavy temple car, contrasted with the lighter wire-spoked wheels of the black roadster bicycle in the foregroundA figurine featuring the New World's independently invented wheel. Among the places where wheeled toys were found, Mesoamerica is the only one where the wheel was never put to practical use before the 16th century.Three spoked wheels on an antique tricycleRim of an alloy wheel A spoked wheel on display at The National Museum of Iran, in Tehran. The wheel is dated to the late 2nd millennium BCE and was excavated at Choqa Zanbil.A wheel with car tire made by BMW companyThe wheel of time in Jainism.Ezekiel's "chariot vision" of Ezekiel 1, by Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650).

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