Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...

The incredible number of shiny shell beads found in the Montelirio tomb reveal an ancient economy able to support large-scale ...

A mammoth tusk boomerang discovered in Poland is approximately 42,000 years old, potentially making it the oldest known ...

Stable isotope analysis could offer a new tool in the fight against wildlife poaching by helping differentiate legal mammoth ...

An international team of scientists has analyzed a carved mammoth tusk found in the Oblazowa Cave in southern Poland, ...

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as ...

The decorated plaster was found dumped in a large pit at a London development site that has previously yielded other ...

Posed as if leaping through the air, this carved ivory dog opens its mouth as a lever is pushed up and down, revealing two lower teeth and a red tongue. The dog, which was discovered in an ancient ...

By Wu Jie Published: Jan 15, 2025 11:44 PM Updated: Jan 18, 2025 01:33 AM ...

A gargantuan gold-and-ivory statue of the god Zeus—some 40 feet high—dazzled the ancient world when it was built in the 5th century B.C. After standing for 8 centuries, it disappeared, and its ...

"We assume so because these Upper Palaeolithic layers in which the figurines were found are associated with modern humans - and not with Neanderthals, for example," he told BBC News Online. The ...