Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed an ornately carved 2,800-year-old elephant tusk in what may have once been an Iron Age "center of power." The ivory carving features a mythical sphinx — a human ...

(CNN) — Buried with an elephant’s tusk, an ivory comb, a crystal dagger, an ostrich eggshell and a flint dagger inlaid with amber, the skeleton discovered in a tomb near Seville, Spain, in 2008 was ...

It is important to save the elephants from extinction (op-ed, Jen Samuel, “How N.J. can help save the elephants,” June 28) and we should institute and pursue policies that are likely to achieve this ...

Sitting on the edge of a hole dug into the ruins of an ancient church in Austria, an archaeologist removed a rectangular brick and exposed a small underground chamber. Inside there was a marble box ...

The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or possibly as teaching aids to help them produce utensils of their own. Discovered ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...