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

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.

Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate illustration ... The houses, even for those of high status, were made of timber, and the wood ...

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.

The home is shown in the 1,000 year-old Bayeux Tapestry and was uncovered through ... noticed a pattern that around the 10th century CE, high-status houses began to integrate toilets.

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 ...

Now the famous, rambunctious feast scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, two years before King ... showing inside toilets were often found in high-status 10th and 11th century homes, can now narrow ...

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 ...

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.

(CNN) — Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate ... The houses, even for those of high status, were made of timber, and the ...