A newly discovered medieval chess piece attributed to the Lewis Chessmen trove, which had been tucked away in a drawer for years after being purchased for just £5 (about $6) in 1964, sold for £735,000 ...

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 ...

There's a small, but very interesting visiting exhibit at the Cloisters of ivory chess figures from the 12th century. Although probably carved in Norway, they were unearthed on the Isle of Lewis in ...

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 ...

If, by some typically improbable turn of events, Homer Simpson were to unearth from his backyard an old chest containing a chess set from medieval times, what would the pieces look like? Chances are ...

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 ...

Related: The Mystery of the Little Norwegian Chessmen. The Magnificent King: 12 th Century, Norway "Each one of these is really a magnificent gem of Romanesque sculpture," Boehm says, pointing out the ...

Today, for the first time, I got to see some of the magnificent Lewis chess pieces first-hand, in Edinburgh's National Museum of Scotland. I wrote about them in my book The Immortal Game (excerpt ...

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 ...