Calls for British Mueseum to return 'icon of Egyptian identity'

The museum said the 1801 treaty included the signature of a representative of Egypt and refers to an Ottoman admiral who fought alongside the British against the French.Carved in the second century BC, the slab contains three translations of a decree relating to a settlement between the then-ruling Ptolemies and a sect of Egyptian priests.

Through knowledge of the latter, academics were able to decipher the hieroglyphic symbols, with French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion eventually cracking the language in 1822. The stone is one of more than 100,000 Egyptian and Sudanese relics housed in the British Museum, many of which were obtained during Britain's colonial rule over the region from 1883 to 1953.It has grown increasingly common for museums and collectors to return artefacts to their country of origin, either following a court ruling or voluntarily.

''Given the treaty and the time frame, the Rosetta Stone is a hard legal battle to win,'' Mr Donnell said.

Oh my. Spell check.

. But the Egyptians don't protect anything... history goooone...

Mooseum

Are you seriously going to spell Museum like that?...twice?...twice Even with spellcheck ABC....you are failing dreadfully.

Do they want to turn it into roadbase like all the other 'cultural icons' they've ignored over the last millennia ot two? If it wasn't for Western musea, such objects would be lost due to the depredations of the natives. As have been the many other copies of the Stone.

Come get it.

Calls for ABC to hire proofreaders

Clownworld out in force today I see.

ABC graduates at woke sorry I mean work again.

Calls for to hire journalists who can spell.

The stone created for the Greeks then abandoned by the Egyptians, later French then found it holding up a wall in a fort, before the English made the French give them the stone after defeating them? The Egyptians didn't give a shit about it before others discovered its value.

Calls for British Museam to ignore calls to return icon of Egyptian identity.

Museum. 😳👎

None of these tinpot countries had any idea what they had until the more civilised countries came along and highlighted it! Just ask Howard Carter! Or that for thousands of years they were sitting on oil..!

Just empty out that whole museum and give it all back!!!

Shouldn’t the Rosetta Stone be returned to Greece since Ptolemaic Greeks created it?

Mueseum?

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