After India banned the ivory trade in 1997, artisans shifted to working with wood. Today, the industry is set for another churn, driven by global wars and red tape. Chess-makers say that exporting ...

A thirteenth-century poem, for example, names a powerful figure, Angus Mor of Islay, as King of Lewis, and has him inheriting his father's set of ivory chess pieces: "To you he left his position ...

TASS/. Archaeologists have discovered a treasure trove in central Moscow dating back to Ivan the Terrible's times - ten silver coins tucked inside an ivory chess bishop, City Hall said on its ...