LONDON (AP) — The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229 foot)-long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be displayed in Britain next year for the first time in 900 years. It ...
A tapestry embroidered with scenes of the 1066 Norman invasion is returning to the U.K. for the first time in 900 years. On a state visit, France's president announced a loan to the British Museum.
The Bayeux Tapestry has long been treated as a spectacular picture book of conquest, a 70-metre strip of embroidery that freezes the Norman invasion in thread. Now a new wave of scholarship argues ...
A trove of 2,584 silver coins from the time of the Norman Conquest has been bought in the U nited K ingdom for more than $5 million — making it the country's highest-value discovery ever made by ...