JERUSALEM — Archeologists on Monday announced the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins found during recent salvage excavations near the central Israeli city of Yavne. The collection ...

Israeli archaeologists announced Monday the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins found during recent salvage excavations near the central city of Yavne. The collection of 425 complete ...

In the Islamic currency system, the first coin that bore an Arabic inscription was called a dinar and was similar, in both size and weight, to the Byzantine solidus. In the margin surrounding the ...

Researchers recently discovered that menorahs prominently adorned Muslim coins and vessels during the early Islamic period 1,300 years ago. Relics inscribed with the Jewish symbol dating to the ...

He added the coins that circulated during the early years of Islam provided additional cohesion to the society. “In the early years of the great Muslim conquests there was no existing tradition ...

By David Belcher In a newly acquired cache of more than 2,800 coins dating to Islam’s medieval ... but also signposts on the road map of early Islam, all coated in tarnish, corrosion and the ...

Gold dinar coin. It was minted at Baghdad, 10th century. The early Islamic civilisation wasn't a single country. It was made up of areas in the world that practised Islam. Religion played an ...

A hoard of gold coins discovered at an archeological site in central Israel on Aug 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Sipa Press, Heidi Levine, Pool) JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists announced Monday the ...

Israeli archaeologists announced Monday the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins found during recent salvage excavations near the central city of Yavne. The collection of 425 complete ...