Following the news that the Pompidou Centre is closing for five years, another famous French attraction is shutting down for ...

King Harold II, one of the subjects of the Bayeux Tapestry, was famously killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Now housed in the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Normandy, France, the Bayeux Tapestry is ... of research methodology—including perusing old maps and records, a re-analysis of past ...

Well, because the Bayeux Tapestry, an astonishingly long and ... Past visitors called the almost 1,000-year-old tapestry awe-inspiring and an absolute must-see. Others praised the accompanying ...

Bosham, in West Sussex, is shown twice in the Bayeux Tapestry which shows the king being killed by a Norman knight and the defeat of Harold Godwinson's army. Dr Duncan Wright, senior lecturer ...

Bayeux Cathedral in Normandy, France When it was made: The late 11th century Related: Bad Dürrenberg headdress: An elaborate 9,000-year-old headpiece worn by a female shaman in Europe What it ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, and shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. By reinterpreting ...

This region of France has so much to ... beaches, lovely old villas and some excellent cafes. Close by is Bayeux, a charming ...

2,000-year-old RSVP: A birthday invitation from the Roman frontier that has the earliest known Latin written by a woman The last scene on the Bayeux Tapestry shows the Battle of Hastings.