The first known type of shoes are sandals. Evidence shows that they were already used in most early civilizations, altough most people went barefoot. It is believed that mountaineers in Mesopotamia in 1600BC wore the first moccasin-like shoes. This soft shoe used leather to cover the foot and was tightened together with rawhide rope. the first example of stilleto heels was found in Ancient Egypt, in a tomb dating from 1000 BC.