Despite an international ban on trade in ivory, elephants are still illegally hunted for their tusks. Up to 35,000 were killed for ivory in 2011 alone, in many cases to create religious artefacts.
An intricately carved model of China’s Chengdu-Kunming Railroad bridge graced the United Nations' New York headquarters for nearly four decades, until renovation of its General Assembly began in 2013 ...
About 41,500 years ago, a Stone Age artist in Europe carved an oval-shaped object covered in dots out of the tusk of a woolly mammoth. Archaeologists have directly dated fragments of bone decorated ...
Tantalising ivory fragments, carved in the half century before the Norman Conquest, reveal the outstanding skill of their Anglo-Saxon carvers. Dr Paul Williamson, from the Victoria and Albert Museum, ...
Discover the fascinating history of the Lewis Chessmen, unearthed in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis. These intricately carved ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carved elephant ivory on a white display from the Iron Age. Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed an ornately carved ...
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