Sacons crossed the Channel in three ships, landing in 477 defeating the ... Anyone who has visited the Bayeux tapestry will know it tells of Harold's oath on some holy relics supporting the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harold Godwinson at Bosham, as depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry. Harold is shown attending church and feasting in the upper floor of a hall, before departing by ship to Normandy. Later in the Tapestry, ...