Over the years, she said, people have suggested other kinds of ostrich egg art to her. At one festival, she met a man who carves the eggs into different patterns and designs. She experimented with ...

Souvenir shops in South Africa are full of lamps made out of ostrich eggs. The eggs are so big and strong that you can carve and cut intricate designs into their shells. The egg’s contents are ...

The highly detailed designs on the eggs convey religious ... tree on which the former first lady hung one of Perchyshyn's ostrich eggs. (She also sent two eggs to the Clintons for their White ...

A 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding how a collection of ostrich eggs got their colorful decorations may have finally been cracked. Ornate eggs were prized items among the elite circles of ...

Back in the Bronze and Iron Ages, decorated ostrich eggs were among the most valued luxuries. Evidence of their broad societal sway has been found as far back as 5,000 years ago, including in ...

A new study finds that people in the Kalahari in southern Africa exchange the ostrich-egg beads as a lavish and visible sign of, well, being friends. BRIAN STEWART: These are not totally ...

Souvenir shops in South Africa are full of lamps made out of ostrich eggs. The eggs are so big and strong that you can carve and cut intricate designs into their shells. The egg's contents are emptied ...