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

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 historical ...

Now the famous, rambunctious feast scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, two years before King Harold was brutally killed at the Battle of Hastings, has been located by archaeologists. Experts can now ...

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.

Above: Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates the Norman ... although one of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th ...

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 ...

The Bayeux Tapestry famously depicts the events leading up to the 1066 Norman Conquest of England, in which William the Conqueror defeated Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England ...

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 ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most treasured artworks in the world, depicting the Battle of Hastings, which changed the course of European history. Given its significance, you might be ...

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.

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 ...

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.