LONDON (AP) — The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229 foot)-long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be displayed in Britain next year for the first time in 900 years. It ...

LONDON — Adam Staples knew he’d found something when his metal detector let out a beep. And then another. And another. Soon “it was just ‘beep beep, beep beep, beep beep,’” Staples said. In a farmer’s ...

In the early eleventh century, southern Italy became a battleground where Lombard ambitions, Byzantine authority, and opportunistic Norman mercenaries collided. This episode traces how failed ...

A trove of 2,584 silver coins from the time of the Norman Conquest has been bought in the U nited K ingdom for more than $5 million — making it the country's highest-value discovery ever made by ...

The year 1066 is familiar to most students of history. The Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror marked the end of Anglo Saxon Britain and the onset of the High Middle Ages. What I myself ...

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The Bayeux Tapestry has long been treated as a spectacular picture book of conquest, a 70-metre strip of embroidery that freezes the Norman invasion in thread. Now a new wave of scholarship argues ...