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 ...

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.

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 ...

Experts from archaeologists to astrophysicists offer new insights on the Bayeux Tapestry, an artefact which, despite its fame, has remained shrouded in mystery. Show more The Bayeux Tapestry is a ...

There in the Bayeux Tapestry, she tells us, are scenes of rape — under the arrows that flew 1,000 years before Zhanna Kadyrova’s Russian rockets.

In a superb piece of programme-making, Radio 4 has brought the Bayeux Tapestry to life with a dramatisation that runs each morning this week, culminating in an hour-long play next Sunday.

British archaeologists Lewis (The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry) and Richardson offer an impressive and exquisitely illustrated tribute to their field. “I had found ghosts,” recalls actor ...