The Rosetta Stone will be featured in a new exhibition of ancient artefacts at The British Museum in London. This is despite calls from Egypt for its return to its country of origin.

The Rosetta Stone contained a decree written in three different types of writing. When it was discovered, no one new how to read hieroglyphics, but after many years, the code was cracked.

The Rosetta Stone has been the subject of a lengthy repatriation campaign. Rediscovered in 1799 by the French military campaign in the Egyptian Delta, following Napoleon’s defeat by the British, the ...

Prominent Egyptian archaeologists have renewed a call for the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum to Egypt, 200 years after the deciphering of the slab unlocked the secrets of ...

The Rosetta Stone was discovered in July 1799, when an officer of the French expedition found it at Qaitbay Castle in the city of Rashid. On September 27, 1822, the French archaeologist Jean-Francois ...