An artist carves a piece of ivory at the Beijing Ivory Carving Factory in January. [Yang Yao / China Daily] In 2009, Guo Chen became the first employee recruited by the Beijing Ivory Carving Factory ...

Dubai: The next time a special intricate carving or statue catches your eye in a local curio shop, think before you buy. If the piece is made of ivory, you may be in for more than you bargained given ...

ROUEN, France (AFP) - Annick Colette-Fremond is the fifth generation of her family to practise the art of ivory carving -- and she may be the last of her line, due to new rules in France. She is one ...

London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, commonly known as the V&A, has raised the £2 million (€2.385 million) needed to acquire a 12th-century walrus ivory formerly bound for the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

This remarkable miniature carving depicts two nymphs garlanding a herm, overlooked by putti. It is a tour de force of virtuoso ivory carving on minute scale. It was made by pair of German carvers ...

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and conservationists have welcomed China’s one year ivory carving ban imports, saying this will reduce poaching. KWS director William Kiprono said although Kenya expected ...

Archaeologists uncover 13,700-year-old mammoth ivory rods in Alaska, linking early carving traditions to Clovis culture ...