In 2008, miners off the coast of Namibia stumbled upon buried treasure: a sunken Portuguese ship known as the Bom Jesus, which went missing on its way to India in 1533. The trading ship bore a trove ...

Ancient Britons’ ivory accessories were sourced from African elephants 1. Since the nineteenth century, ivory rings have been discovered in dozens of cemeteries in England dating to the early ...

Thai police arrested two men on charges of smuggling African ivory into the country to supply shops in Thailand that sell jewelry and trinkets, including to customers in the United States, authorities ...

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