The 70-meter medieval tapestry was transported overnight from France in a climate-controlled container with police escort, according to N12. It will be displayed at the British Museum in an exhibition that has already sold 100,000 tickets.
At 08:49 Jerusalem on Friday, The Zioneer reported that the 70-meter Bayeux Tapestry had arrived at the British Museum overnight in a carefully orchestrated operation. New details from N12, reported by journalist Asaf Rozencwajg, describe the logistics: the tapestry, folded in a special manner and placed in a climate-controlled, shock-absorbent container, was transported by truck across the English Channel in an 11-hour journey covering 560 kilometers, with a police escort.
The tapestry will undergo a period of acclimatization before being carefully unrolled for the exhibition, which is expected to be one of the most popular in the museum's history. On the first day of ticket sales, approximately 100,000 tickets were sold.
As The Zioneer reported earlier, the loan marks the first time the historic artifact leaves France in nearly a millennium, according to reports from ynet.
It remains unverified whether the tapestry's acclimatization period will include public previews before the official opening.
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