"A seal and a gaming piece of elephant ivory from Mundigak (III) in Afghanistan, c.3000 BC, are the earliest ivory artefacts so far discovered outside India."
— Ivory trade

January 1, 1970

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Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence. Moorey Peter Roger Stuart, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994., page 116 , citing (Jarrige and Tosi 1981:39) JARRIGE, J . .I., and TOSI, M. 1981 'The Natural Resources of Mundigak', in Hartel (cel.) 1981, 115-42..Quoted in