When the British defeated the French, the ancient stone was put into British possession in 1801, according to History.com. The Rosetta Stone is a broken part of a bigger stone slab. It measures 44 ...

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 ...

With the cracking of the Rosetta Stone, they could speak with their own voice, and suddenly whole areas of history were revealed.” ...

According to History, Young started to examine the Rosetta stone in 1814. He found that some of the hieroglyphics were ...

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Almost a millennium before the Rosetta Stone was even discovered ... have all too often been overlooked or even written out of history. "It's impossible to know what the individual motives ...

"Anything that left illegally, it should be back to Egypt." While the Rosetta Stone's place in history looms large for archaeologists, the short message on it proved to be inconsequential.

knowledge about our history was never for us: It was for someone else, for the Westerner,” she said, adding that it was time to “decolonize our minds.” The Rosetta Stone is “the icon of ...

The acquisition of the Rosetta Stone was tied up in the imperial battles ... For Hanna, Egyptians’ right to access their own history should remain the priority. “How many Egyptians can travel ...

The Rosetta Stone, the basis for our understanding of ancient Egypt, is an important part of Egyptian identity and must be returned to Egypt, writes Zahi Hawass Now is the time for the British ...