Carved with stone tools out of mammoth ivory, the tiny head measures just 1.9 inches (4.8 centimeters) tall and 1 inch (2.4 cm) wide. The sculpture appears to represent a woman's face, with ...

A tiny portrait, carved from mammoth ivory, is revealing insights into the distant past. Discovered in the Czech Republic, it is believed to be the world’s oldest surviving personal portrait ...

JB Lacroix//Getty Images Her ensemble was ivory and monochrome, the centerpiece being a silky floor-length dress with a straight high neckline and thin straps. The piece hails from Brunello ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about ten minutes.

Both these regions have ivory carving traditions predating Christianity. The ivories from India are usually called Indo-Portuguese. African ivory was much preferred by the Indian craftsmen since it ...

A 1,500-year-old rubbish heap unearthed in southern Ohio holds the answers to some key questions about the ancient Indians who lived there and built huge funeral mounds filled with offerings ...

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They lived off of hunting mammoths, producing intricate ivory carvings, developing some of the earliest ceramic technologies, and even building shelters using mammoth bones. But their teeth tell ...

Archaeologists have discovered some of the earliest-known stone fragments containing Germanic letter inscriptions at a grave site in Norway, offering unprecedented insights into Norse language before ...