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The British Museum is prevented by law from disposing of objects in its collection except in limited circumstances.

Protesters take to luxury beds and sofas in London store to call for action on ‘sky-rocketing’ energy bills

The inscriptions on the dark grey granite slab became the seminal breakthrough in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics after it was taken from Egypt by forces of the British empire in 1801.

Thousands of Egyptians have demanded the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum. The bilingual carvings on the relic proved to be the breakthrough in the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics after being unearthed by colonialists in Egypt in 1799. The stone is the centrepiece of a new…

It helped decipher hieroglyphics, and now Egyptians want it back from the British Museum.

Thousands of Egyptians have demanded the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum.

The debate over who owns ancient artifacts has been an increasing challenge to museums across Europe and America, and the spotlight has fallen on the most visited piece in the British Museum: The Rosetta Stone. The inscriptions on the dark grey granite slab became the seminal breakthrough in deciphering ancient…

Thousands of Egyptians are demanding that the British Museum return the Rosetta Stone

The Horniman Museum in south-east London officially handed over ownership of the artefacts to the Nigerian government on Monday