Bayeux Tapestry ‘begins secret journey to the UK from France’ after strikes delay

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For the first time in forty years, the medieval masterpiece left its Norman setting as part of an exceptionally complex manoeuvre, preluded to its controversial loan to the British Museum. The 11th-century embroidered emblem was extracted on Thursday from its Bayeux museum, where it had been resting since 1983, before being sent to a [...] Read more Bayeux Tapestry begins a historic journey under high protection appeared first on Le Singulier.