THE DAILY PIC (#1657): This kind of elephant-tusk hunting horn is called an olifant, and the 12 th-century one in this image is from the museum of fine arts in Angers in France. Curators there have ...

A medieval civic horn which was stolen in a daylight raid on the town hall in the 60s has finally been returned to Dover after years of searching. The Dover Burghmote Horn, made of copper alloy, was ...

The last aurochs, the wild ancestor of domesticated cattle and a favorite game animal up to the medieval period in Europe, died at a game preserve in Poland in 1627. Now a group of Scandinavian ...

A cow horn believed to be the oldest known example of a medicine container in southern Africa has been discovered in a South African cave. It sheds light on the herbal remedies used by indigenous ...