Two million ivory name chops Use of ivory is common across human cultures. Even in Europe, not a source area for ivory, ivory carving was already highly developed in ancient Greece and Rome. The ivory trade from Africa to Europe across the Mediterranean was carried on interrupted for centuries.
使用象牙是人類普遍的文化行為，即使不產象的歐洲，從希臘、羅馬時期，象牙雕刻技術已發展極為精緻，象牙從北非經地中海、至歐洲的跨海交易也從未中斷。