Study finds Levantine ivory came from Africa through Nubian trade, not Egypt

The recent research tracking the origin of southern Levantine ivory artifacts has revealed that most of the material came from African elephants, and Nubian merchants were involved in sustaining long-distance exchange networks for nearly a thousand years. Covering the period from 1600 to 600 BCE...

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