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Bayeux Tapestry

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Bayeux Tapestry

A 70-metre embroidered chronicle of the Norman Conquest/Art & Sculpture

The Bayeux Tapestry is not actually a tapestry but an embroidered cloth depicting the events leading to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. It contains 58 scenes with over 600 people, 200 horses, and 500 other animals. The final scenes showing the Battle of Hastings are damaged, and the original ending is lost.

Measurements

Total length68.4 m
1,200House keys
64.1Hurdle heights
4,559Blueberry diameters
Height5 tenths m
7.1 thousandthsBoeing 747 lengths
41.7Aspirin tablets
2.08Chopsticks
Linen thickness1 thousandths m
658 millionthsDesk widths
937 millionthsBaseball bats
Estimated mass3.5 kg
56.5 millionEyelashes
4.12Chipotle bowls
Border height (each)7 hundredths m
1.46Dominoes
2.3 tenthsLily pad diameters
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