Debate is raging amongst historians over the number of penises included on the Bayeux Tapestry. The original embroidery is ...

Tourists could flock to Reading as the town possesses one of the few Bayeux tapestries in existence, as the original is due to be stowed away.

Most of the penises were not transferred onto the replica by the Leek Embroidery ... Either way, Prof Garnett said the Bayeux Tapestry, at 70m (230ft) long and about half a metre high (1.7ft ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is a remarkable example of medieval ... Although an 18th century replica exists at the UK’s Reading Museum, the era’s social standards necessitated a censored version ...

The museum in Reading Town Hall is free to enter and contains items of interest including artefacts from Roman Silchester, a ...

Reading Museum is set to dispose of items it no longer needs, which include human bones and a Roman jewellery piece.

Scholars are currently locked in a heated debate over the number of penises depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. In 2018, University of Oxford’s Professor George Garnett counted 93 individual genitalia on ...

The Bayeux Tapestry has obsessed medieval historians for decades. Though it offers a vivid and singular account of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, fundamental questions surrounding the ...

A professor at Oxford University says there are 93 depictions of male genitalia in the tapestry, while an expert on Anglo-Saxon nudity claims he has found an extra phallus Photo: Bayeux Museum A ...

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts one of Britain’s most famous clashes, the Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror defeated Harold Godwinson to take the English throne. Now, the cloth is subject ...