Georgia University Houses Only Full-Size US Replica of Historic Bayeux Tapestry

A thousand years after anonymous hands stitched the story of a conquest into linen, a Georgia university quietly holds the only full-size American replica of the Bayeux Tapestry — making one of history's most consequential visual chronicles accessible to those who will never cross the Atlantic. The original, preserved in Bayeux, France, belongs to the world in principle but to a single place in practice; this replica insists that proximity to the past should not be a privilege of geography. As the tapestry enjoys a renewed cultural moment, inspiring artists and scholars alike, the question it