Edward the Confessor sends Harold Godwinson to Normandy in this scene from the Bayeux Tapestry. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The 230-foot-long tapestry—which is, in fact, an embroidered ...

And at Harold's coronation, the tapestry includes a star with a streaming tail — the first known depiction of Halley's Comet. The last scene on the Bayeux Tapestry shows the Battle of Hastings.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, and shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. By reinterpreting ...

Earlier this year it was announced that King Harold II’s residence, depicted in the tapestry, was discovered by researchers. The artifact is currently housed at the Bayeux Museum in Normandy.

It was commissioned to mark William the Conqueror's victory over Harold Godwinson. Tapestries are wonderful works of art woven on a loom. The famous Bayeux Tapestry, however, is an embroidery made ...

Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of the English ... A great deal of what we know, or think we know about the event, is captured in the Bayeux Tapestry. The first thing to say about the Bayeux ...

The exact location of Harold’s palace was previously unknown, despite both the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Bayeux Tapestry indicating it was in or near Bosham. A recent re-analysis of ...