Bayeux Tapestry: A 1,000-year-old embroidery depicting William the Conqueror's victory and King Harold's grisly death. ... The English are fighting on foot, while the Normans are on horseback.

Bayeux Tapestry: Centuries-Old Mystery Regarding One of Most Important Artefacts in British History ... English. You can get in touch with Aristos by emailing [email protected]. Languages ...

Although all other writing in the tapestry is in Latin, this features an Old English phrase from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1066. It translates as: "The end will be good, as God wills." ...

What a difference a day makes. A single day on a battlefield 1000 years ago determined that all the subsequent course of events in Britain and Europe would go one way and not another.

Two English tapestry experts, Richard Allen and Hannah Lumb, were hired to set the conservation course and start the work. ... Taking out an old repair to the eagle's wing, ...

The former power center of Harold II is shown in the 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

A detail of the Bodleian Library’s Elizabethan tapestry map of Oxfordshire, on view for the first time in 400 years. The library also holds the Worcestershire tapestry and the largest surviving ...

Bayeux Tapestry: A 1,000-year-old embroidery depicting William the Conqueror's victory and King Harold's grisly death. ... The English are fighting on foot, while the Normans are on horseback.