Ancient cities were not the pale mausoleums that we see today. Researchers have long believed that the faded ivory, marble and stone remnants of the ancient world were once brightly painted and gilded ...

image: A team of archeologists from Siberian Federal University and Novosibirsk State University provided a detailed reconstruction of a technology that was used to carve ornaments and sculptures from ...

Analysis of 1,500 artifacts shows imports from Nubia between 1600-600 BCE, a trade network that endured from Canaanite times ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA—Drills, cutters, and leveling blades were employed more than 20,000 years ago to carve the mammoth-ivory figurines and beads recovered from south-central Siberia’s Ust-Kova site, ...

An ancient Indian ivory carving of Buddha's life, a gift to Chinese monk Xuanzang in the 7th century, is a centerpiece at a ...

A centuries-old ivory carving from ancient India, depicting the life of Buddha, has become a centrepiece at the China ...

Xuanzang, one of China's most revered scholars and a leading Indophile of his time, travelled extensively across India in search of Buddhist teachings. His writings not only helped spread Buddhist ...