London’s V&A museum is seeking donations to purchase a fine ivory carving that is likely to have been made in York, in North Yorkshire, and which the museum characterizes as “one of the finest and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We see a pieced together animal carving against a black background. It has a long neck, a curved back and legs on either side.

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed an ornately carved 2,800-year-old elephant tusk in what may have once been an Iron Age "center of power." The ivory carving features a mythical sphinx — a human ...

BEIJING, 17 December (BelTA - Xinhua). - Galloping horses, people with vivid facial expressions, beautiful women playing Pipa (a kind of pear-shaped stringed instrument), and men playing football, ...

An artist carves a piece of ivory at the Beijing Ivory Carving Factory. (Photo by Yang Yao / China Daily courtesy Beijing International) BEIJING, China, March 31, 2017 (ENS) – China today permanently ...

A Carmel Valley man accused of selling ivory carvings that could have commanded $100,000 on the black market was ordered by a judge to forfeit his entire collection, the San Diego City Attorney’s ...

Archaeologists uncover 13,700-year-old mammoth ivory rods in Alaska, linking early carving traditions to Clovis culture ...

CORUM, TURKEY—The Anadolu Agency reports that an excavation in northern Turkey at the site of Hattusha has uncovered a piece of carved ivory measuring about one foot long. Archaeologist Andreas ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — A San Diego man accused of selling ivory carvings that could have commanded $100,000 on the black market was ordered by a judge to forfeit his entire collection, the San Diego ...