Following the news that the Pompidou Centre is closing for five years, another famous French attraction is shutting down for ...

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 ...

Under the command of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, the Ahnenerbe group commissioned Schlabow and other scientists to travel to occupied France and study the Bayeux Tapestry in 1941. At some point ...

The imagery faithfully reproduces the original embroidery housed at the Musee de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in France. It has also been judged as the most accurate copy in the world. The original Bayeux ...

Several sections are shown in more detail to relate how and why the tapestry came to exist and how it was made. In the main central band alone - 600 men, 200 horses and 50 dogs are depicted.

Since 1983 the tapestry has been on display in the Grand Seminary of Bayeux in northwest France, part of the Bayeux ... with its 10 colors of woolen thread made using plant-based dyes, isn ...