Scans of a hill showed a dense concentration of abandoned buildings, so archaeologists started digging. Here’s what they ...

The campaigners argue the Rosetta Stone, along with 16 other artifacts that have been in the U.K. for centuries were removed from Egypt illegally, and it's time to get them back.

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 ...

The Rosetta Stone is widely considered one of archaeology's most significant finds. A decree from Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V ...

The stone is one of more than 100,000 Egyptian and Sudanese relics housed in the British Museum. A large percentage were obtained during Britain’s colonial rule over the region from 1883 to 1953.

Life in ancient Egypt had been a mystery for centuries until the discovery of the Rosetta stone. A new exhibition at The British Museum in London explores how the stone was decoded and celebrates ...

The Rosetta Stone dates to 196 BC and was unearthed by Napoleon’s army in northern Egypt in 1799. It became British property after Napoleon’s defeat under the terms of the 1801 Treaty of ...

“It would be great to have the Rosetta Stone back in Egypt, but this is something that will still need a lot of discussion and co-operation,” Dr Tarek Tawfik, the museum’s director, said in ...

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 ...