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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Two miniature sculptures sold on eBay in December 2020: a tiny egg with a chick hatching through the shell, and an intricately carved man in ...

An image supposedly showing an elephant carved into a natural stone pillar in India has been circulating on social media for years. An April 2021 posting to Reddit, for example, was captioned: ...

BANGKOK -- Ivory is easy to find on the stalls of Chatuchak Market and River City mall in Bangkok. On display at just one shop are hundreds of pounds of carved elephant tusk, unthinkable in most ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Assyrian palace in Nimrud found a door sill, carved ivory and ostrich eggshells revealing royal life. Photo from Michael Danti Precious objects made of ostrich ...

Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones. In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed tools excavated from a site in ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After this month’s ice storm damaged millions of trees in Austin, one resident is turning her destroyed tree into a work of art. For 32 years, Austin resident Deborah Alexander had a ...