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Bayeux Tapestry arrives in London after epic journey

Workers unload the highly secure case holding the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry on its arrival in London on Friday. (Photo: AFP)

LONDON - The mediaeval Bayeux Tapestry arrived in London in the early hours of Friday after leaving France for the first time in more than 900 years on a hugely complicated journey to an exhibition in the British capital.

AFP journalists at the British Museum saw a metal case holding the 11th-century work being unloaded from a truck which had carried it across the Channel in a hushed-up, high-security operation.

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