A professor is challenging old assumptions about the iconic Bayeux Tapestry, proposing it was created for a refectory for ...

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting William the Conqueror’s half-brother, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, encouraging his squires - Hulton Archive/Getty Images Some works of art are so famous that ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, the medieval embroidery depicting the events surrounding the Battle of Hastings in 1066, may have been ...

In 1824, workers at Gobelins Manufactory in Paris, the most prestigious tapestry makers in the world, were convinced that they were having the wool pulled over their eyes. The problem had to do with ...

Researchers have unraveled a long standing mystery regarding the history of the Bayeux Tapestry—an embroidered cloth measuring around 230 foot long and 20 inches tall which tells the story of how the ...

BAYEUX, France (AP) — There’s a digital clock on display outside the visitors center in the charming Normandy town of Bayeux — but it doesn’t tell the time. It’s counting down the days until the 70th ...

The 11th-Century embroidery of the Norman Conquest has inspired communities across the world to stitch their own histories in fabric, to powerful effect, writes Sarah Woolley. For thousands of years ...