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Egypt demands return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum

Egypt has said thousands of artefacts can remain in British museums, but renewed its calls for the Rosetta Stone to be returned. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council ...
Hyperallergic

Activists Crash British Museum Opening to Protest Egypt's Political Prisoners

Activists staged a "read-in" calling for the release of Egypt's political prisoners outside the British Museum during a preview this morning for the upcoming exhibition Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient ...
Gizmodo

Egypt Wants Its Rosetta Stone Back From the British Museum

Nearly 200 years after the Rosetta Stone was deciphered, unlocking the key to understanding Ancient Egyptian heritage, the iconic slab sits far from where it originated. But a group of Egyptian ...