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The World's Oldest Road

It is the Sweet Track of England: a 6,000-year-old wooden walkway discovered in a peat bog by a laborer named Raymond Sweet. The remarkably well-preserved wood reveals much about the track's builders

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 261 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “The World's Oldest Road” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 261 No. 5 (), p. 100
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1189-100