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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 Warder chess piece. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's Until that day comes, there’s a lot to be appreciated about the Lewis Warder piece. As Kader pointed out, the newly-discovered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...