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Bayeux Tapestry Mystery

The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 meters (230 ft) long and 50 centimeters (20 in) tall, 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.  The Bayeux tapestry consists of some fifty scenes with Latin tituli, all embroidered on linen with colored woollen yarns. It is said that it is likely that it was commissioned by Bishop Odo, William's half-brother, and made in England - not Bayeux - in the 1070s.  In 1729 the hanging was rediscovered by scholars at a time when it was being displayed annually in Bayeux Cathedral.  The tapestry is now exhibited at the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Bayeux, Normandy, France.

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