Egyptian archeologists are putting together a petition to call for the return of the Rosetta Stone 200 years after it was deciphered

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October 12, 2022

So who’s gonna dress up as Ramses and stand outside saying “return the slab”? I’m gonna take a wild guess here: England ain’t gonna return it…

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 hieroglyphic script and marked the birth of Egyptology.

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