The 770-pound Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066. By Laura Baisas Published Dec 15, 2025 11:04 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Nearly 1,000 years after it was produced, a key mystery surrounding the murky origin of the Bayeux Tapestry may have been solved. Professor Benjamin Pohl, a historian at the University of Bristol, ...

New research by a historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history's biggest mysteries—the original purpose of the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry. In a paper ...

Since it was created 900 years ago, the Bayeux Tapestry has survived war, revolution and the ravages of time. This fragile piece of linen, almost seventy metres long, depicts the events leading up to ...

To this day, the tapestry remains one of the most valuable sources historians can analyse when understanding the events that led up to the Battle of Hastings, and the battle itself - which saw the ...

The famous artwork was transported to a secure location on Friday in an operation that took over seven hours and involved a decoy truck for safety. Sewn by English women, probably in Kent, the Bayeux ...

The transfer of the 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry began last Friday with the careful unhooking of the tapestry from its display at the Bayeux Museum in Normandy. Trump responds to cattle ranchers’ ...

Bayeux Museum employees started taking the northern French town's namesake tapestry down on Monday before the building that houses it closes for renovation work. Dozens of museum workers could be seen ...

The Bayeux Tapestry has started its secret journey to the British Museum where it will temporarily be put on display for nine months, according to reports. The priceless eleventh century work, which ...

The 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry has been moved from its museum in northern France for the first time in more than 40 years, authorities said on Friday, before the artwork's loan to the United Kingdom ...

Some scholars argue that the sprawling medieval tapestry is too fragile to be moved. Hulton Archive / Getty Images Despite concerns from scholars, a French official has ruled that a 1,000-year-old ...