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 ...

The history of ivory carving goes back to the most remote antiquity. Centuries before the Christian era we can point to examples in the days of the earliest dynasties of Assyria and Egypt.

What it is: A lifelike figurine of a Neolithic woman carved out of the ivory core of a mammoth tusk. Where it was found: Inside the Grotte du Pape ("Pope's Cave") in Brassempouy, a village in ...

China has announced a plan to phase out all ivory processing and trade by the end of 2017, the government said on Friday, a move that conservationists hope will stymie the mass killing – and ...

A Palm Bay folk artist created "The Last Supper," a Biblical-inspired project made up of 90% Ivory soap ...

The long-lost 'body' of mysterious ice age animal carving was discovered in German cave, but archaeologists aren't sure if it's a cave lion or cave bear.

This remarkable miniature carving depicts two nymphs garlanding a herm, overlooked by putti. It is a tour de force of virtuoso ivory carving on minute scale. It was made by pair of German carvers ...

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 ...

What it is: A lifelike figurine of a Neolithic woman carved out of the ivory core of a mammoth tusk. Where it was found: Inside the Grotte du Pape ("Pope's Cave") in Brassempouy, a village in ...