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A 1,000-year-old mystery: what's really stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry?

A long, expertly embroidered cloth - the Bayeux Tapestry, on rare display in a UK museum across two galleries - recounts in vivid detail the epic story of the Norman Conquest of England. But Victorian prudishness has reignited a very modern academic row: how many penises did the original embroiderers actually stitch in?

A 1,000-year-old mystery: what's really stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry?

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