Ancient Ivory: Masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire

Author: Georgina Herrmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Ivory is a wonderful material: tactile, beautiful, workable into many different forms and the strongest in the animal kingdom. Unfortunately for the elephant, it has been highly prized, by virtue of its rarity and the difficulty of acquiring it, from the Palaeolithic to the present day - indeed the Syrian elephant was hunted to extinction. However, it was during the early first millennium bc - the 'Age of Ivory' - that...Read more