An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel ...

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 ...

A 20-centimeter-long piece of mammoth ivory sporting four carved holes, shown here from different angles, helped scientists untangle how Central Europeans may have made rope 35,000 to 40,000 years ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Assyrian palace in Nimrud found a door sill, carved ivory and ostrich eggshells revealing royal life.

Made from a mixture of widely available materials such as wood, wax, stone, clay and ivory, dolls accompanied children throughout the ancient world. Simple stone dolls, decorated with crude carvings, ...

Of Mammoths and Men Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks.

During the early first millennium bc - the "Age of Ivory" - literally thousands of carved ivories found their way to the Assyrian capital city of Kalhu, or modern Nimrud, in northern Iraq.

A sculpted piece of mammoth ivory found in a German cave may be the earliest representation of a bird in the archaeological record.

Researchers studying a centuries-old church found the ivory relic hidden in a marble shrine.