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The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in London for the first time in more than 900 years after a highly secure and complex journey from France to the British Museum, as FRANCE 24’s Rochelle Ferguson-Bouyahi explains. The 11th-century masterpiece depicting the Battle of Hastings will be displayed from September 2026 to July 2027, in a historic […]

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After nearly 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry has returned to the UK for a year-long exhibition at the British Museum. Its highly secretive and carefully controlled journey involved police escorts, a specially designed case and strict conditions to protect the fragile medieval masterpiece, in a move seen as a symbol of Franco-British ties.

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