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European colonising powers sought to exploit Africa's resources from the 15th century onwards. Arab traders had been doing the same in North Africa and East Africa through the Middle Ages, but it was from the 17th...

A late-19th-century photograph of an ivory trading station (factory) in French Congo. Private Collection.

This object is an ivory furniture inlay depicting a striding sphinx. It was excavated from Samaria and dates to the Iron Age II (9th–8th century BCE). It has a length of 7.5 cm and a width of 7 cm. (The Israel Museum...

This ivory plaque depicts six Assyrian worshippers in procession in six vertical rectangles. Note the details of their dresses. The men are bare-chested and wear kilts while the women wear a full dress. Both...

A Greek ivory pyxis depicting griffins attacking stags. 15th Century BCE. (Agora Museum, Athens)

The 6 ivory panels, set within a plane framework, would originally have been mounted on the concave inner surface of a curved wooden support. By analogy with a similar curved back rest from Salamis in Cyprus, it seems...

An ivory statuette of Apollo Lykeios, 3rd Century BCE. The statuette was restored after being found in 200 pieces at the bottom of a well. (Agora Museum, Athens)

Ivory head of a lion, part of the so-called "Nimrud Ivories" that decorated chariots, high-status furniture, and horse trappings. They were covered with thin gold leaf or ornamented with semiprecious stones. From...

Stools were the most common pieces of furniture used in ancient Egypt. This ivory leg was probably attached to a frame by means of a leather thong lashed through the holes. From its cylinder shape, it was likely to have been the...

It is possible that this hand formed part of the temple's cult figure. LBII, 1400-1200 BCE. From the Fosse Temple at Lachish, modern-day Israel. (The British Museum, London).