GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Eggs can be scrambled, fried and whipped into a meringue. However, in Carla Ute Kelly’s Ouray home, eggs double as night lights or fountains. For more than three years, Kelly, ...
Precious objects made of ostrich eggshells, elaborately painted walls, furniture inlaid with carved hippopotamus and elephant ivory: Welcome to palace life in ancient Assyria. More aptly, welcome to ...
Archaeologists excavating an ancient Assyrian palace in Nimrud found a door sill, carved ivory and ostrich eggshells revealing royal life. Photo from Michael Danti Precious objects made of ostrich ...