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 ...

Discovered in Egypt by Napoleon’s conquering forces, this plain-looking slab was the key to cracking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Although it's just a fragment of a larger rock slab, the ...

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 ...

I recently read an article about the Rosetta Stone by UK historian David Abulafia. I feel that the author could benefit from learning some facts that are clearly lacking in his article. Abulafia says ...

French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822 Trending Today Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History “The first ...

CAIRO - 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: ...