The World’s Oldest Known Mattress

Announced by archeologists in 2011 the worlds oldest known mattress, build up from layers of reeds and rushed was found at the bottom of a pile of similar, accumulated bedding in a cave in South Africa. Archeologist Lyn Wadley said “What we have is evidence of plant bedding that is 50,000 years older than any previous site anywhere in the world.”.

Other artefacts found at the site include the earliest bone arrow, the earliest stone arrow and the earliest recorded use of a heated glue compound.

Isn’t that interesting!?