Watch: First glimpse of Bayeux Tapestry in UK for almost 1,000 years

The Bayeux Tapestry, an eleventh-century embroidered masterpiece seventy meters long, has arrived at the British Museum—marking its first time in the United Kingdom in nearly a thousand years. The French-held artifact went on display last week, BBC News reports. The tapestry depicts the Norman Conquest of England and is among history's most renowned embroidered works.

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