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2,800-year-old ivory carved with sphinx discovered in Turkey
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 ...
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Walrus Ivory Carving (IMAGE)
This is an example of an elaborately-carved ecclesiastical walrus ivory plaque from the beginning of the medieval walrus ivory trade, featuring the figure of Christ, together with St. Mary and St ...
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Ivory Carving
I found a body in the road but further on I found a workshop and an old looking man working on beautiful ivory carvings. I swapped cigarettes for a small piece shown here. It is a little container ...
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Ivory Worship
This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 A HUNDRED RAIDERS ON HORSEBACK CHARGED OUT OF CHAD INTO CAMEROON’S BOUBA NDJIDAH NATIONAL PARK ...
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Elephant Slaughter Escalates as Illegal Ivory Market Thrives
But the big profit is made in Asia. Thai Customs recently evaluated smuggled ivory as being worth $1,800 per kilogram—$18,000 per elephant—wholesale. The “street value” retail price of 10 kilograms of ...
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David Warther Carvings
Join us for a guided tour through our spacious five room exhibit, showing 87-plus antique ivory carvings. David carves daily in his on-site workshop where he regularly demonstrates carving ...
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Lost Treasures From the Thames Will Go on View at the London Museum
The London Museum's new exhibition explores mudlarking, a centuries-old practice in which people scour the riverbank for ...
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London’s V&A beats the Met to 12th-century ivory carving after financial tug-of-war with
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 ...
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Poached for Its Horn, This Rare Bird Struggles to Survive
Softer than ivory, it can be finely carved into beads, figurines, and artistic scenes. These casques, carved with Chinese designs, were confiscated by law enforcement in the U.S. Helmeted hornbill ...
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Tiny Japanese carvings on view at the Jewish Museum tell the story of a Jewish family’s resilience
“The Hare with Amber Eyes” includes treasures and everyday objects described in Edmund de Waal’s 2010 memoir of the same name. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Edmund de Waal believes that ...
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Ivory Carving
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