The most famous chess pieces in the world were carved from walrus ivory during the Middle Ages, but much of their history is still unknown. The Lewis Chessmen are the most important chess pieces ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the 1066 Norman invasion and Battle Of Hastings, is to return to England for the first ...

Chess piece bought for £5 then left in drawer turns out to be medieval treasure worth £1m Owners shocked to discover their mysterious figurine was one of the world-famous Lewis chessmen ...

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 ...

SIX pieces from the world’s most famous chess set have been returned to the Outer Hebrides, where they were discovered in the 19th century.

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.

The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for £735,000 ($929,000) at Sotheby’s, according to the auction house.

A MEDIEVAL chess piece missing for almost 200 years could fetch £1million at auction after a family discovered the object they kept in a drawer is part of a long-lost set. The Lewis Chessmen –… ...

The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for £735,000 ($929,000) at Sotheby’s, according to the auction house.