Since 1983 the tapestry has been on display in the Grand Seminary of Bayeux in northwest France, part of the Bayeux Museums complex alongside the Normandy Battle Memorial Museum and the Baron ...

And at Harold's coronation, the tapestry includes a star with a streaming tail — the first known depiction of Halley's Comet. The last scene on the Bayeux Tapestry shows the Battle of Hastings.

The Bayeux Tapestry has obsessed medieval historians for decades. Though it offers a vivid and singular account of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, fundamental questions surrounding the ...

It's over 230 feet long and over 900 years old. Its the Bayeux Tapestry. There's one historical artefact that tells us exactly why William the Conqueror thought he should be King of England.

But Bayeux Tapestry scholar and expert on Anglo-Saxon nudity Dr Christopher Monk believes he has found one extra on another man in the tapestry. Speaking to HistoryExtra, Dr Monk said ...

Also discussed will be what we might be able to learn about the Bayeux Tapestry with new advances in science. Michael Lewis is Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum and ...

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Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate illustration of the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and a ...