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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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.

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.

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 ...