It is not known when silver was discovered. The use of silver was found in cave paintings where it showed the process of extracting the metal. The Ancient Egyptian’s discovered silver in 6,000 B.C. Both the islands of the Aegean Sea and Anatolia (now Turkey) developed the mining process in 4,000 B.C.
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