New historical research is challenging centuries of assumptions about why the Bayeux Tapestry — one of the most iconic pieces ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, the medieval embroidery depicting the events surrounding the Battle of Hastings in 1066, may have been ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...