The Arkadiko Bridge is one of four Mycenaean corbel arch bridges part of a former network of roads, designed to accommodate chariots, between the fort of Tiryns and town of Epidauros in the Peloponnese, in southern Greece.
On April 6, 2001, the reconstructed wooden footbridge was opened, being the longest wooden bridge in Switzerland. Between 13, Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, built a 'new' wooden bridge across the lake that has been used to 1878 – measuring approximately 1,450 metres (4,760 ft) in length and 4 metres (13 ft) wide. The first wooden footbridge led across Lake Zürich, followed by several reconstructions at least until the late 2nd century AD, when the Roman Empire built a 6-metre-wide (20 ft) wooden bridge. Īmong the oldest timber bridges is the Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden crossing upper Lake Zürich in Switzerland the prehistoric timber piles discovered to the west of the Seedamm date back to 1523 BC. Some of the first man-made bridges with significant span were probably intentionally felled trees. Undoubtedly, ancient people would also have used log bridges that is a timber bridge that fall naturally or are intentionally felled or placed across streams. Neolithic people also built a form of boardwalk across marshes examples of such bridges include the Sweet Track and the Post Track in England, approximately 6000 years old. The simplest and earliest types of bridges were stepping stones.