Spread out on a table by US Homeland Security staff, the collection of 590 ancient Egyptian artefacts was ... has uncovered that an artefact the British Museum bought from a convicted smuggler ...

LONDON — The director of the British ... the language of ancient Egypt, scrolls bearing 12th century Chinese poetry and masks created by the Indigenous people of Canada. The museum has also ...

Hawass made the appeal for the repatriation of the Egyptian artefacts at the British Museum, chief among them the iconic Rosetta Stone, in the wake of a recent revelation that around 2,000 ...

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 ...

The kernel of the British Museum’s new major exhibition Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt, is the Rosetta Stone, one of the world’s most famous museum objects and often a sore ...

THE national collection of Egyptian antiquities in the British Museum is, speaking generally, the most complete in Europe. Other collections may perhaps excel it in certain classes of antiquities ...

The Rosetta Stone was taken from Egypt by forces of the British empire in 1801 Petitions calling for the stone to be returned have attracted more than 100,000 signatures The museum says Egypt's ...