The Lewis Chessmen are the most important chess pieces in history.Ever since the ivory figures were discovered sometime before 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, these kings ...

And no chess pieces offer richer insights than the 78 mixed pieces found on the Hebridean island of Lewis in 1831, and known ever since as the Lewis Chessmen. Sixty-seven are in the British Museum.

A medieval chess piece bought for £5 and kept in a drawer for 50 years could fetch £1 million after being identified as one of the long-lost Lewis Chessmen. The hoard, found in 1831 on the Isle ...

A famous chess match was the central theme, with each move shown on a different chessboard, a wonderfully inventive idea. A set of Lewis chessmen was there, and I asked the curator whence it had come.

The Isle of Lewis was Norwegian territory until 1266, and it has been theorized that the chess set was buried there after a shipwreck. The newly-discovered chess piece belonged to an Edinburgh family.

Two Icelanders have challenged traditional scholarly thinking about the 800-year-old Norse Lewis Chessmen, suggesting they were made not in Norway, but in Iceland.

The warder, which translates to a rook in modern-day chess, is part of a famous group of four medieval chess sets discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides (an archipelago in ...

The “iconic” 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 ...