It depicts a medieval game of thrones as William the Conquerer did battle with King Harold to rule England.

After more than 900 years in France, the Bayeux Tapestry—one of medieval Europe’s most fragile, priceless treasures—slipped back into England in a controversial overnight operation. Here’s what transporting a 225-foot-long masterwork actually takes.

The survivors looking back could hardly understand how it all happened. No one wanted to steal the Bayeux Tapestry, or at least the sort of people who liked tapestries didn’t want to steal one and

The Medieval artwork was delivered in a high-security mission to the British Museum

From kings and battles, to hidden details in its design, here are five things you might not know about one of the world's most famous embroidered pieces.

I n the dark of night in July, under police escort, a specially fitted lorry carrying a thousand-year-old tapestry will leave the town of Bayeux in Normandy. The fragile linen fab

The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in Britain for the first time in nearly 1,000 years ahead of a sell-out exhibition at the British Museum, travelling under police escort during a meticulously ​choreographed journey from France.

After almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil. On loan from its home in France, the tapestry will go on display at the London museum from Sept. 10 until July 2027 – a public homecoming for a vivid visual record of the 1066 Norman invasion,