Customs in Austria have caught a man smuggling banned ivory figurines hidden inside cheap wooden souvenirs. Officials in the city of Vienna, Austria, laid their hands on the 54-year-old Polish…
US authorities have repatriated a 2,700-year-old artefact stolen from a museum in Iraq 20 years ago. The Iron Age artefact, named 'Furniture Fitting with Sphinx Trampling a Youth', was reportedly…
Over half of the artefacts from the former African Kingdom of Benin that are exhibited in Switzerland ended up there after they were stolen by British soldiers in the 19th…
This footage shows rare ivory plaques dating back thousands of years to Solomon's Temple that are believed to have been part of a throne and that have been unearthed in…
Archaeologists have found valuable objects including an ornate ivory comb with stunning carvings and a bowl from Africa in two sixth-century graves in northern Swabia - the first such find…
Custom officers have seized several dozen illegal ivory jewellery pieces from a German citizen worth up to GBP 4,300 per kilogramme on the black market. Custom officers from the city…
Police have warned that people who stole teeth from two sperm whale carcasses in Bali were breaking the law as they remain protected species whether alive or dead. The carcasses…