11 of the chessmen are at the National Museums Scotland and the remaining 82 reside at the British Museum. They were probably made in Norway late 12th and early 13th centuries and where the ...

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.

11 of the chessmen are at the National Museums Scotland and the remaining 82 reside at the British Museum. They were probably made in Norway late 12th and early 13th centuries and where the ...

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So, how are these chessmen made? And why are they so expensive? At this factory in Amritsar, India, artisans carve the pieces for the official World Chess Championship sets. And the factory ...

When Icelandic forensic geneticist Brynja Pálsdóttir, haunted by her family’s dark legacy, is drawn into the search for the missing Lewis Chessmen, she becomes a pawn in an assassin’s deadly ...