The new evidence supports the idea that the Lewis Chessmen, discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY) ...

Episode 61 - Lewis Chessmen. Lewis Chessmen (made twelfth century). Walrus ivory and whales' teeth; found on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. In 1972 the world was gripped by one of the great battles ...

A newly discovered piece from the Lewis Chessmen trove bought for just £5 (about $6) in 1964 sold for £735,000 ($927,423) at Sotheby’s London.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Of all the “lost” objects to rediscover, few could rival a Lewis chessman. These diminutive carvings of ...

Two Icelanders have challenged traditional scholarly thinking about the 800-year-old Norse Lewis Chessmen, suggesting they were made not in Norway, but in Iceland.

It’s a million-dollar find — right in their own home. One family’s discovery of a lost Lewis Chessman found in a drawer could fetch up to $1.2 million at auction. The game piece w… ...

The Lewis Chessmen – a hoard of 93 objects regarded as the most famous chess pieces to have survived from the medieval world – were discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.

Episode 61 - Lewis Chessmen. Lewis Chessmen (made twelfth century). Walrus ivory and whales' teeth; found on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. In 1972 the world was gripped by one of the great battles ...

A medieval chess piece missing for almost 200 years has sold for £735,000 at auction. The piece, bought for £5 in 1964 by an antiques dealer and passed down through their family, has hit a new ...