which have all asked the British Museum to give back stolen artefacts. Egypt has been asking for the return of the Rosetta Stone, forcibly taken by the British empire in 1801. Greece has also been ...

The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC ... The Stone was brought back to the British Museum and immediately put on display - in the public domain, freely available for every scholar in the world ...

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British Museum secures record £1bn donation of ... Last year the museum -- home to the Rosetta Stone -- was rocked by revelations that thousands of artefacts from its collection were found ...

Visiting the British Museum? Here's what you need to ... Among the most popular things to see are the Rosetta Stone (the key to unlocking hieroglyphs), the singular Anglo-Saxon treasures of ...

The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC ... The Stone was brought back to the British Museum and immediately put on display - in the public domain, freely available for every scholar in the world ...

In fact, many travelers say it's the best museum in all of London. What's more, it's free to visit. From the Rosetta Stone to the Parthenon Sculptures to Mesopotamian objects, the British Museum ...

For centuries, the Rosetta ... stone was spirited away for safekeeping. Later, after Napoleon’s crushing defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the stone became the property of the British ...