In the plains of western Ukraine, researchers digging through ancient soil found a handful of small, broken pieces of ivory ...

one of its ancient limbs sticking out of the half-frozen sediment. Nothing, however, has fueled the mammoth tusk trade more than the rise of China, which has an ivory-carving tradition going back ...

What it tells us about the past: Archaeologists excavating Hohle Fels cave in southwestern Germany over two decades ago discovered three tiny figurines carved out of mammoth ivory. Dated to around ...

Modern DNA technology is helping to protect African wild animals from the most ancient of criminal abuses—poaching for bushmeat. Long before elephant ivory carvings became fashionable, and before ...

Housing more than 1.4 million artifacts and specimens, the collections include Alaskan art spanning more than 2,000 years, featuring paintings, sculpture and ancient ivory carvings. Specimens ...