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Google "Lewis chessmen" and--unless you come up with my book Ivory Vikings --you'll probably learn that they were made in Tr...

The Lewis chessmen, the subject of my book,  Ivory Vikings , were found on the Isle of Lewis in westernmost Scotland in the early 1800s....

You may not think you know the Lewis chessmen, but I bet you recognize their faces.  In Scotland researching my book Ivory Vikings ...

1. Take off your shirt. "Berserk" comes from an Old Norse word meaning "bare-shirt" or, maybe, "bear-shirt....

The Knight is the last piece I place on the imaginary chessboard in Ivory Vikings , my biography of the Lewis chessmen--though it could ha...

As I was writing Ivory Vikings , my new book about the Lewis chessmen, I commented on this blog ( here ) that "One reason they are so...

One book leads to the next. It's a truism among writers, and particularly apt for explaining how my latest book, Ivory Vikings: The My...

Where were the famous Lewis chessmen carved? Art historians usually assume, in the absence of other evidence, that an object was made clos...

"If you knew what they were valued at ..." During a research trip to Edinburgh for my book Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the...