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 ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed an ornately carved 2,800-year-old elephant tusk in what may have once been an Iron Age "center of power." The ivory carving features a mythical sphinx — a human ...

What it is: A lifelike figurine of a Neolithic woman carved out of the ivory core of a mammoth tusk. Where it was found: Inside the Grotte du Pape ("Pope's Cave") in Brassempouy, a village in France, ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the missing piece of an ice age carving deep in a cave. But the new addition of the ivory carving, originally thought to depict a horse, has actually ...

The artifact is from an Iron Age settlement at Hattusa that was established after the city was abandoned by the Hittites. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...