A small fragment of carved elephant ivory, recovered from a northern European archaeological context, is giving researchers ...
A carved ivory comb recovered from a sixth-century burial in Deiningen, Bavaria, is offering researchers a strikingly ...
Despite an international ban on trade in ivory, elephants are still illegally hunted for their tusks. Up to 35,000 were killed for ivory in 2011 alone, in many cases to create religious artefacts.