A medieval chess piece from the famed Lewis Chessman trove, the most revered collection of chess pieces in the world, first discovered on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in 1831, is ...

The recently discovered Lewis Chessmen piece (photo courtesy Sotheby’s) At a Sotheby’s sale on July 2, one of the famous Lewis Chessmen pieces sold for £735,000 (~$927,423) — 55 years after it was ...

An ivory chess piece purchased for less than $10 was recently identified as one of the missing Lewis Chessman, 900-year-old artifacts dating back to the Viking era, which could be worth over $1 ...

This chess set was given to me when I was a child. Each piece has its own individual character with the 4½-inch-tall kings being fearsome looking. Paper labels read: “Guaranteed African Ivory, Tsang ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Wood chess set manufacturer, The House of Staunton, explains their humanitarian mission to produce ivory chessmen without endangering the planet's ...

Of all 13,000 objects in the British Museum that are made of ivory, the Lewis Chessmen are perhaps the most revered. The exhibit is easy to spot among the numerous display cases in the museum’s ...

MOSCOW, May 10. /TASS/. Archaeologists have discovered a treasure trove in central Moscow dating back to Ivan the Terrible's times - ten silver coins tucked inside an ivory chess bishop, City Hall ...

This image made available by Sotheby's shows a newly discovered Lewis Chessman on display at Sotheby's in London. Getty Images for Sotheby's A 900-year-old Viking chess piece that was bought for less ...

Reporting from La Jolla — A sculpture of a female dancer. One of Romeo and Juliet. A 32-piece chess set, rings and exquisitely carved ornaments from Japan. That’s just a partial list of items ...