AFTER years of political point-scoring over their rightful home, more than 30 of the historic Lewis chessmen go on show in Edinburgh today in an exhibition expected to draw tens of thousands of ...

A £5 ($6) purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for £735,000 ...

The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked exhibition in Edinburgh brings together the British Museum and the National Museum of Scotland’s collections of the Lewis Chessmen – a set of medieval gaming pieces, ...

LONDON (AP) — A chess piece purchased for a few pounds (dollars) by an antiques dealer in Scotland in 1964 has been identified as one of the 900-year-old Lewis Chessmen, among the greatest artifacts ...

The Lewis chessmen have been redisplayed in a case which allows visitors to see their backs for the first time. The display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh means people can now view ...

When an antiques dealer in Scotland bought an ivory chessman for £5 ($6) in 1964, he probably had no inkling that he had taken possession of one of the most famous chess pieces in the world. Stored in ...

The mystery-thriller combines DNA science, historical mystery, and the search for a missing medieval treasure. “Ivory Bones” challenges us to consider how much of our past defines who we are, and how ...

The chess piece had been bought by an Edinburgh antiques dealer for £5 in 1964 A medieval chess piece kept in a drawer of an Edinburgh home has been sold at auction for £735,000. Its previous owners ...

The Lewis Chessmen are the most famous and important chess pieces in history. They have a long historical and scholarly record, part of which is that they were made in Norway roughly 800 years ago.

Sotheby's has determined that a figurine a Scottish antique dealer bought in 1964 is actually a 900-year-old Viking chess piece — one of five missing from 4 chess sets. . A small carved figure sat in ...