See the medieval structure →'Mammoth graveyard' next to ancient settlement may have been dumping ground, study says The “richly decorated” ivory box was a reliquary or special container used ...

She spent two months on the island to document the hunt for ancient ivory. “They can’t sell the skull,” she says of the tusk hunters. “There is no need to saw off the tusk from the skull.

Combs of wood, bone, and ivory have turned up at ancient sites in the Old World, but solid evidence for such tools in the Americas was lacking until a recent study in northern Chile. That research ...

The highest status individual in ancient Iberian copper age society was ... They have named her "Ivory Lady". She was buried with ivory tusks, ostrich eggshell, and a rock crystal dagger.

An engraving on an ancient lice comb might be the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet. The doubled-edged ivory comb, which was excavated in Israel, bears an engraved inscription ...

Insider's coverage of the fascinating glimpses into humanity's past included an engraving on an ancient ivory lice comb which is the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet ...