Cairo — More than 200 years after scientists decoded the Rosetta Stone, campaigners in Egypt have launched a petition calling on the country's leader to submit a formal request for England to ...

Found while Napoleon’s army was digging the foundations of a fort in Rosetta, now El-Rashid, Egypt, the stone provided the key to decoding hieroglyphics — the ancient Egyptian writing system ...

CAIRO, Oct 5 (Reuters) - 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 ...

The British Museum’s holding of the stone is a symbol of Western cultural violence against Egypt,” said Monica Hanna, dean at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport ...

A close-up view of the cartouche of the Ptolemaic dynasty Pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes inscribed with the rest of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text in the upper portion of the Rosetta Stone ...

As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone.

“The British Museum’s holding of the Stone is a symbol of western cultural violence against Egypt,” the respected Egyptologist has said. If the debate around the Stone has long been ...

CAIRO, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Minister of Housing Sherif El-Sherbiny on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the country's first green industrial complex, the ministry said in a statement.