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Egyptians call on British Museum to return Rosetta stone
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe debate over who owns ancient artifacts has been an increasing challenge to museums across Europe...
Battle site of 'Great Revolt' recorded on Rosetta Stone unearthed in Egypt
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA selection of pottery that includes bowls and jugs. Archaeologists have long known about the Great...
An ancient language with nearly a million undeciphered texts just got a translator that does the job...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoDead languages are famously hard to decipher. It took 23 years to crack the Egyptian hieroglyphics...
‘Unusual’ writing on 4,000-year-old tablets decoded as lost language, study says
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoWith a wedge-shaped pen, a scribe sat down with a clay tablet and began writing. Dividing the tablet...
Art, facts and artifacts: The British Museum should follow the Metropolitan Museum’s example and...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA new movement is afoot to return one of history’s most important objects to its home. In this case, the squeaky wheels are right. The Rosetta Stone, long one of the jewels of the collection ...
British Museum launches hieroglyphs exhibition to mark special anniversary
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoThe British Museum has launched a major exhibition to mark 200 years since the decipherment of...
What are the most famous items kept at the British Museum?
Yahoo News UK· 10 months agoA curator at the British Museum has been identified as the worker who was dismissed after items went...
‘The Cleopatras’ Review: The Last Queens of Egypt
The Wall Street Journal· 2 weeks agoBOOKSHELF Writing of the 1949 black comedy “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” in which Alec Guinness played every member of an eccentric aristocratic family,...
The most contested treasures in British museums (and who wants them back)
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoTypically there hasn’t been a huge amount of urgency attached to seeing our museums’ greatest...