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 ...

THE box of chessmen had been left open all night. That was a great oversight! For everybody knows that the contending chessmen are but too eager to fight their battles over again by midnight, if a ...

A drop of glowing liquid drips from the tip of an iron stick, freezes into a perfect hemisphere after resting on a long and cold iron plate. That's one of the steps how Li Guojie from Baoshan, once ...

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.

Ancient chess pieces. A centuries-old diary. And a modern killer closing in. When Icelandic forensic geneticist Brynja Pálsdóttir, haunted by her family’s dark legacy, is drawn into the search for the ...

Sotheby's has determined that a figurine a Scottish antique dealer bought in 1964 is actually a 900-year-old Viking chess piece — one of five missing from 4 chess sets. . A small carved figure sat in ...