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

The Dolní Vestonice Portrait Head is just 2 inches tall and 1 inch wide. It's a tiny face carved into an ivory mammoth tusk, ...

Raw tusks are not Bernales’s only medium—the heads of some of his saints began as billiard balls. Filipinos generally display two types of ivory santos: either solid carvings or images whose ...

Ultimately, of course, the appetite for ivory spelled doom for ... such as chaining workers together in forced labor. Each tusk bears a distinctive carved band, twining from base to tip and ...