‘Once-in-a-millennium moment’: Medieval masterpiece Bayeux Tapestry finally goes on show in London

The 230-foot tapestry telling the story of William the Conqueror’s 1066 invasion reflects a “really seismic moment in British history,” the project’s curator told NBC News.

LONDON — Dramatic, bloody and occasionally lewd, the Bayeux Tapestry has lived for nearly a millennium as a hand-stitched tale of a conquest that changed the course of history.