page_title: Timeline of transportation technology
section_title: Antiquity
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of transportation technology / Antiquity
caption_attribution_description: English: Dionysus on a ship sailing between dolphins. Black-figure kylix from Vulci, Exekias Painter, circa 530 BC. Staatliche Antikensammlungen München. Čeština: Dionýsova plavba: Dionýsos na lodi, plující mezi delfíny. Černofigurový kylix z Vulci, malíř Exekiás, kolem roku 530 př. n. l. Staatliche Antikensammlungen München.
context_page_description: This is a timeline of transportation technology and technological developments in the culture of transportation.
context_section_description: 20th millennium BCE – rafts used on rivers.
  7th millennium BCE – Earliest known shoes.
  6th millennium BCE – Dugout canoes constructed.
  4th millennium BCE – The earliest vehicles may have been ox carts.
  3500 BCE – Domestication of the horse and invention of the wheel in Ancient Near East
  Toys excavated from the Indus valley civilization (3010–1500 BCE) include small carts.
  3000 BCE – Austronesians construct catamarans and outriggers.
  In the Mediterranean, galleys were developed about 3000 BC.
  2nd millennium BCE – Cart mentioned in literature, chariot and spoked wheel invented.
  800 BCE – Canal for transport constructed in Ancient China.
  408 BCE – Wheelbarrow referenced in Ancient Greece.
caption: Dionysus riding on a small galley-like craft in a painting from the Dionysus cup by Exekias, from c. 530 BC[1]
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