A team of Israeli archaeologists has discovered the earliest evidence of silver being used as currency in the Levant, dating back more than 3,600 years, which is 500 years prior to previous estimates.

AMMAN — The earliest cosmographic depiction of southern Levant in the Ottoman period came from the traveller Asik Mehmed (1555-1598) in his book “Views of the Worlds”. “Mehmed spent most of his ...