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One of these following facts about the Bayeux Tapestry should probably give you much information about it. The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth, not an actual tapestry, which is instead woven, nearly 70 meters long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England, concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. For further information,  Read More ... »