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.

For centuries, the remaining 230 feet of the tapestry have resided in Bayeux, a town of some 12,000 residents in Normandy, France. The embroidered fabric has only left town twice since its ...

A key artwork at the University of North Georgia (UNG), the Bayeux Tapestry Replica is the only full-size replica in the United States of the famous embroidery that visually captures the story of the ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the ... skilled women of the Leek Society who thought the tapestry needed knickers – they were given censored images from what is now the Victoria & Albert A ...

The historical saga of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 is chronicled across the 230-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry, one of the most amazing yet mysterious art historical marvels of all time.

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 ...

Under the command of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, the Ahnenerbe group commissioned Schlabow and other scientists to travel to occupied France and study the Bayeux Tapestry in 1941. At some point ...