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.

Detail of scene 47: The Latin text reads “Here King Harold was slain.” In the next, and last scene, the English flee. At its home at UNG, the Bayeux Tapestry Replica achieves the educational mission ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long linen cloth crafted in the eleventh century, depicts scenes from William the Conqueror’s invasion of England and his defeat of Harold Godwinson, England’s ...

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 ...

Explore how the drama of 1066 and the Battle of Hastings, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, shaped the future of Westminster Abbey. In 1066, William the Conqueror led the Norman Invasion of England, ...