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 ...

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

The Bayeux War Cemetery is one of the largest of 18 military cemeteries in Normandy, with more than 4,000 graves – many of which mark the plots of soldiers who were never identified. These ...

Here are some of the things they reveal ... 8-10 nuns gathered around to do the stitching. Not a loom in sight! 3. The bishop who likely commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry gave himself a starring ...

The tapestry depicts key moments in history from 1064 to 1066 — mainly the struggle between Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon king, and William, Duke of Normandy ... scene on the Bayeux Tapestry ...

Its the Bayeux Tapestry. There's one historical artefact ... This is women's work and I suspect that the men who give names to things like this don't necessarily know what they're looking at.

William, Duke of Normandy, challenged Harold for the throne and was ultimately successful. The Bayeux Tapestry culminates ... particularly fascinated by all things aquatic, paleontology ...

Now housed in the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Normandy, France, the Bayeux Tapestry is considered a rare example of secular Romanesque art, similar in its narrative style to a cartoon strip.

Bosham, on the coast of West Sussex, is depicted twice in the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously narrates the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 when William, Duke of Normandy, challenged Harold for ...