To reduce poaching of African elephants—some 33, 000 of them are lost every year—the United States put into effect an almost complete ban on selling and trading ivory across state lines beginning July ...

In an episode of BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, one guest brought in a box which had been passed down by her family. Although after learning the high value the item would go for if it were to be put in an ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient hilltop settlement in southern Austria discovered the remains of a richly decorated ivory box that is some 1,500 years old—the first such artifact to be found in ...

Of all 13,000 objects in the British Museum that are made of ivory, the Lewis Chessmen are perhaps the most revered. The exhibit is easy to spot among the numerous display cases in the museum’s ...