King Harold II, one of the subjects of the Bayeux Tapestry, was famously killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby ...

What it tells us about the past: This tapestry was first recorded in 1476 as part of the inventory of the Bayeux Cathedral, but it was likely commissioned in the 1070s by Bishop Odo, a close relative ...

Presenting fresh archaeological evidence, Dr Duncan Wright shares how a team of experts might have found the lost living ...

Well, because the Bayeux Tapestry, an astonishingly long and beautifully made work of art, chronicles the 1066 Battle of Hastings. The approximately 230-foot-long tapestry is displayed in a dark ...

The famous Bayeux Tapestry, however, is an embroidery made from sheets of linen, with pictures added using individual stitches. It would have taken at least 45kg of wool, using ten colours made ...

Its the Bayeux Tapestry. There's one historical artefact ... And did you know it's not actually a tapestry at all? The pictures are stitched on, which is embroidery. This is women's work and ...

“The Bayeux Tapestry is integral to the way everyone ... to read about a place and see images of it in sources from the time, and to be able to pinpoint and reconstruct something of it now ...