France’s Bayeux Tapestry will be closed to the public for two years whilst the museum housing it undergoes a €38m renovation.

Consisting of 58 scenes stitched into the linen cloth in different colors of wool, the medieval work of art — which is technically an embroidery rather than a woven tapestry — measures nearly ...

What it tells us about the past: This tapestry was first recorded in 1476 as part of the inventory of the Bayeux Cathedral ... and the death of King Harold is illustrated, after which the English ...

who was just two years away from a painful death following an arrow to the eye. Now the famous, rambunctious feast scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, two years before King Harold was brutally killed at ...

The residence is famously depicted twice in the Bayeux Tapestry ... s claim to the throne upon the death of King Edward the Confessor. But when Harold instead claimed the monarchy in 1066 ...

The last scene on the Bayeux Tapestry shows the Battle of Hastings ... Bloody, dismembered corpses litter the ground, and the death of King Harold is illustrated, after which the English are ...

The events leading up to Harold’s death are documented on the Bayeux Tapestry. On the tapestry, Harold is shown visiting the town of Bosham, in West Sussex, twice. In Bosham, Harold is depicted ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king.

The brief reign and untimely death of King Harold II is etched ... Both the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Bayeux Tapestry depict Harold as having resided in a “very high-status building ...

Bayeux Tapestry shows 58 scenes from William’s 1066 conquest Features Harold's death and William’s victory in the Battle of Hastings Preserved medieval artwork to be housed in a new museum by 2027 ...