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. Carved elephant ivory on a white display from the Iron Age. Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed an ornately carved ...

Today one of the world’s largest domestic markets for elephant ivory begins to wind down. China is closing 67 of its licensed ivory facilities, including 12 of its 35 ivory carving factories and ...

XINHUA, China, Feb. 26 (UPI) --China instated a one-year ban on African ivory carving imports Thusday. Currently, Ivory carvings are legal in China, as long as all activities comply with a few ...

A team of archeologists from Siberian Federal University and Novosibirsk State University provided a detailed reconstruction of a technology that was used to carve ornaments and sculptures from ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, Wong Lai-ngan carves a mammoth tusk at the Lise Carving and Jewellrey workshop in Hong Kong. The ...

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.

Beijing (CNN)When Li Chunke started carving ivory in 1964, the number of elephants in Africa was still on the rise. Demand for ivory in China was practically non-existent and tusks could be bought for ...