Ok, I dont know if it really smells bad or not :D. But scientists in UK have found a 2,000 year old shoe, and it is the oldest ever discovered there. The shoe is made of leather, although the experts don't know yet which type of animal skin was used to make it. It seems reasonably well-preserved, with stitch and lace holes still visible in the leather. The shoe is being studied by conservationists in Salisbury, southwest England, and is expected to be displayed at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.

Not my shoe! (Courtesy: BBC)It was found when the owners of Whiteball Quarry began working in the area, where a Bronze Age iron-smelting site had been discovered in 1989. Nearby, researchers from Exeter Archaeology found two water troughs, along with two timber-lined wells, preserved by waterlogging and probably dating from the early part of the Iron Age (700 BC to AD 43).
The shoe is nearly 12 inches long, suggesting its owner was male. I am planning to promptly go out after I finish this post, and bury two of my shoes in two different locations. Who knows, may be I (or at least my shoes!) will be famous in a couple of millennia or so :D:D.