Set against the landscapes of Iceland, Africa, and the Americas,“Ivory Bones” follows forensic scientist Brynja Pálsdóttir as she races to recover the iconic Lewis Chessmen-among the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ron and Hermione ­– battle against a violent life-size chess set that is an enlarged replica of the Lewis Chessmen. Discovered in the sand-dunes of the Isle of Lewis, part of the Outer Hebrides, in ...

It tells the story of the Lewis chessmen, 78 pieces carved from walrus tusks in a style that points to the 12th century, found on a sandy beach in the Scottish Hebrides in the early 1800s.

The Lewis chessmen are probably the most famous chess set characters in the world. First discovered in 1831 on the island of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, these walrus ivory chessmen are ...

A replica of the Lewis Chessmen is used in the game of “Wizard’s Chess” played in the first Harry Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.” ...

A replica of the Lewis Chessmen is used in the game of “Wizard’s Chess” played in the first Harry Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.” ...

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.