The Bayeux Tapestry — the 70-metre, 11th-century embroidery depicting the Norman conquest of England — has arrived safely at the British Museum in London after a secrecy-shrouded journey through the Channel Tunnel, escorted by police. Folded accordion-style in a climate-controlled, shock-absorbing case, it completed an 11-hour trip from its permanent home in the town of Bayeux, northwestern France, where it has been kept for most of the past millennium. The loan, announced during French President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to the UK in July 2025, marks the first time the tapestry has been on British soil in roughly 1,000 years; it will go on public display from 10 September until July 2027, with 100,000 tickets sold on the first day they went on sale.