Rosetta Stone: Egypt reclaims the important stela from the British Museum

Egyptian archaeologists have been running an internet campaign to collect signatures and claim the Rosetta Stone, which dates back to 196 BC., contains three types of writing (Egyptian, demotic and ancient Greek) and thanks to this they managed to decipher the hieroglyphic writing.

After 200 years, they demand the return of the Rosetta stone to the British Museum. So far, they have gathered some 2,500 signatures. In addition, they seek to make Egyptians aware of “what has been taken from them,” the acting dean of the Aswan College of Archeology, Monica Hanna, told ‘Reuters’.

To remember, the stele was unearthed in northern Egypt by Napoleon’s Army in 1799. After Bonaparte’s defeat, the object became the property of the United Kingdom. Since then it has remained in the British Museum, considered his ‘home’ from 1802.

The Government of Egypt has claimed this valuable stone on several occasions. However, Monica Hanna considers that “the Rosetta stone will soon return home”, as she told ‘Reiters’.

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“I am sure that all these objects will eventually be returned, since the ethical code of museums is changing. it’s just a matter of time“, he claimed.

What a spokesman for the British Museum said, consulted by the aforementioned media, was that have not yet received any formal request from the Egyptian Government for the return of the wake.

“The stone is a symbol of cultural violence, the stone is a symbol of cultural imperialism,” Hanna concluded. “That’s why, relocating the stone is a symbol that things are changing: that we are no longer in the 19th century but that we work with a 21st century code of ethics”, he added.