Filipino master ivory carver Marcial Bernales transforms an elephant tusk into the head and hands of the Madonna. His first love is carving wood, but ivory has a special draw.

Ivory carving in China dates back to the Neolithic Age and peaked during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Beijing and Tianjin in northern China, Shanghai and Nanjing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Object Details Donor Name Aaron And Lillie Straus Foundation, Inc Notes Catalog Card: "Cylindrical covered piece with three flying dragons in high relief over a sea with clouds overhead. The dragons ...

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 ...

The V&A Museum Aims to Raise $2.5 Million to Buy a Rare 12th-Century Ivory Carving The piece, showing Joseph of Arimathea lifting Jesus down from the cross, is under a temporary export ban.

Object Details Donor Name Dr. Carl C. Hansen Notes Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 8, case 20, where identified as "Altar of the 3 Gems." From card: "Consisting of wooden base from which arise 3 ...

Researchers said prices for raw ivory in China had risen from $750 (550 euros) per kilo in 2010 to $2,100 (1,540 euros) in 2014.

The ivory carving features a mythical sphinx — a human head on the body of a winged lion — as well as a depiction of a real lion and two tall plants that may represent the mythical "tree of life." ...