Ivory carving master Zhang Minhui started exploring use of ox bones for carving 20 years ago, when China-made ivory began losing American and European customers after the Convention on International ...

London's V&A museum aims to buy a rare 12th-century ivory carving that is under a temporary export ban. The price is $2.5 million.

BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing has imposed a one-year ban on imports of ivory carvings, but questions remained Friday on its effect on rising Chinese demand, which critics say could push wild African ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Beijing: China has announced a one-year suspension on imports of carved ivory products from Africa, but conservationists said the ...

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 ...

The fabled ivory carvings from the ancient Phoenician city of Arslan Tash -- literally meaning "Stone Lion" -- may appear a dull monochrome in museums today, but they glittered with brilliant blue ...

Beijing has imposed a one-year ban on the import of ivory carvings, amid international criticism that rapidly-growing Chinese demand could push wild African elephants to extinction within a ...