Amongst the most appealing objects in the British Museum is a chess set, perhaps made by 12th century Norwegian craftsmen and discovered on a remote beach on the Isle of Lewis in 1831. Each piece is amazingly carved out of whale teeth - some are comic, some pensive and some grand. |
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Title: | The Lewis Chessmen | |
Air Date: | June 28, 2006 | |
Runtime: | 30 min | |
Genres: | History | |
grasshopper rex : so, just trolling me. noted.