Traditional theories place the wheel’s development in Mesopotamia around 4000 BCE, where the potter’s wheel first appeared. Others suggest northern Turkey as a possible origin. However ...

The Sumerian city is a splendid sight ... so obviously useful and so ripe for invention. Potter’s wheels were an ancient technology by this time. The city had streets that were flat and smooth ...

NARRATOR:'Like this potter's wheel that was invented over six thousand years ago. In Ancient Sumer.' NARRATOR:'The job remained the same until a few hundred years ago NARRATOR:'when machinery once ...