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It is not a painting. It is not a scroll. It is not quite a tapestry, either. And yet, the Bayeux Tapestry, nearly 70 meters long and stitched with wool yarn on linen, remains one of the most cinematic works of medieval art ever created. It unfurls like a storyboard, chronicling the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066, culminating in the Battle of Hastings. But this is not just about war. It is about vision, spin, and the way art becomes authority. Can

Once, they crowned the Parthenon. A procession of gods, humans, and horses, carved in Pentelic marble, celebrating the glory of Athens, and the values of a young democracy rising against time. Today, those same sculptures are scattered. Some remain in Athens, in the Acropolis Museum, bathed in Greek light and facing the ruins of the building they once adorned. More than half, sit in the British Museum, labeled as the Elgin Marbles, a name that carries both fame and fracture.