A delicate ivory sculpture is carved at a shop in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, last year. [Photo by ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY] Ivory carvers in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, one of the major production ...

After years of strictly regulating trade in ivory and destroying illegal items, as police prepare to do in this photo from 2015, China is banning any illegally sourced ivory, sounding a death knell ...

An ivory carving of a head is displayed during a press conference where Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., announced the guilty pleas of two ivory dealers and their businesses for ...

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the missing piece of an ice age carving deep in a cave. But the new addition of the ivory carving, originally thought to depict a horse, has actually ...

Dwight Milligrock is a bit like an Arctic Noah. But instead of leading birds and animals to the confinement of a 40-cubit ark, this aged Eskimo ivory carver gentles them out of walrus tusks and into ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Wong Lai-ngan hunches over a battered workbench, his electric rotary tool whining as he carves two phoenixes facing each other into a smooth white tusk. Decades ago, Wong’s canvas ...

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 ...