Vegetable ivory, or tagua, is a sustainable and eco-friendly material obtained from the seeds of specific palm trees in the ...

The Pyxis of Al-Mughira at Louvre Abu Dhabi is currently on loan from the museum’s counterpart in France, having arrived in ...

Portuguese Macau and Goa produced beautifully crafted Christian pieces that still reflect the Asian artistic identity. Both these regions have ivory carving tra ...

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 A HUNDRED RAIDERS ON HORSEBACK CHARGED OUT OF CHAD INTO CAMEROON’S BOUBA NDJIDAH NATIONAL PARK ...

An Example of Ivory Substi... Tusk or Bone? An Example of Ivory Substitute in the Wildlife Trade This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Bone carvings (and other ivory ...

Uncover the world's oldest surviving personal portrait, a 26,000-year-old mammoth ivory carving from Dolní Věstonice, Czech ...

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