The United Kingdom secures the embroidered canvas commemorating the victory of William the Conqueror in Hastings for over 900 ...

A medieval marvel, the Bayeux Tapestry depicts the 1066 Norman Conquest in vivid embroidery. The tapestry continues to inspire artists like David Hockney and has prompted many pop-culture ...

The Bayeux Tapestry has long been treated as a spectacular picture book of conquest, a 70-metre strip of embroidery that freezes the Norman invasion in thread. Now a new wave of scholarship argues ...

The Hunt explores art and ancient relics that are—alas!—lost to time. From the Ark of the Covenant to Cleopatra’s tomb, these legendary treasures have long captured the imaginations of historians and ...

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting William the Conqueror’s half-brother, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, encouraging his squires - Hulton Archive/Getty Images Some works of art are so famous that ...

LONDON (AP) — The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229 foot)-long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be displayed in Britain next year for the first time in 900 years. It ...

You might ask why on earth would you make a stop to see a tapestry when Camembert cheese, hard cider and the rolling Normandy hills are beckoning? Well, because the Bayeux Tapestry, an astonishingly ...

The "Bayeux tapestry" tapestry" tells the story of England's conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) The priceless 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry will be loaned to ...

Bayeux (France) (AFP) – Here are five things to know about the Bayeux Tapestry, the priceless 11th-century work that French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday will be loaned to Britain in ...

President Emmanuel Macron’s recent announcement that France will send the Bayeux Tapestry to England in a historic loan was a grand gesture of cultural diplomacy, but such a move across the channel ...

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