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 ...

Viking Age Norse people seeking walrus ivory in the High Arctic may have encountered Indigenous North Americans hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" the continent, a study ...

From card: "Consisting of wooden base from which arise 3 carved columns. The side columns have each a panel of ivory carving, representing Buddha. The figure is in ivory carving. Lacquered, gilded and ...

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.

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 ...