The inauguration in Brussels of the ‘Rosetta Stone of Climate’ sculpture is shown on November 6, 2022. BELGA/AFP via Getty Images. The acquisition of the Rosetta Stone was tied up in the ...

The Rosetta Stone, ... “I don’t like being here,” he said, motioning at the slab and surrounding statues and sarcophagi in the British Museum’s Egyptian sculpture gallery.

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous artifacts in the British Museum. The inscriptions on the slab of granite were crucial in enabling experts to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs ...

The stone is one of more than 100,000 Egyptian and Sudanese relics housed in the British Museum. A large percentage were obtained during Britain’s colonial rule over the region from 1883 to 1953.

The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 by French soldiers during Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion ... but the German government has repeatedly refused to give back the 3,400-year-old queen’s statue.

The Rosetta Stone, the basis for our understanding of ancient Egypt, is an important part of Egyptian identity and must be returned to Egypt, writes Zahi Hawass ...

The Rosetta Stone catalogs some of Ptolemy V Epiphanes' accomplishments, such as gifts to temples, ... such as constructing new statues, adding better decorations to his shrines, ...

The Rosetta Stone undergoes the last stages of its conservation by Senior Stone Conservator Nic Lee on July 6, 2004, in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery at The British Museum in London. (File Photo ...