Under the cover of night, the Bayeux Tapestry arrived in the UK on Friday.
It is the first time the almost 1,000-year-old artifact is in the UK and hundreds of thousands of people have already bought the first batch of tickets to see it.
The Bayeux Tapestry is a 70-metre linen artifact with embroidered images depicting the Norman Conquest of England.
The tapestry starts in 1064, and follows the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, which saw William the Conqueror take the English throne from Saxon King Harold and become the first Norman king of England.
Famously, King Harold was killed during the battle, a moment depicted in the tapestry with an arrow through his eye.
The artwork is thought to have been commissioned around 960 years ago by the half-brother of William the Conqueror. While nobody knows who made the tapestry, many historians agree it was likely stitched in England because of the type of needlecraft stitching and some Anglo-Saxon spelling.
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