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Welcome to the british museum discover two million years of human history and culture. Find out about the rosetta stone a 5 000 year old sand dried mummy wall paintings from nebamun s tomb and sculptures of the pharaoh ramesses ii through our onsite sessions and classroom resources. The museum holds the largest collection of egyptian objects outside egypt telling the story of life and death in the ancient nile valley.
Towards the end of the first world war in 1917 when the museum was concerned about heavy bombing in london they moved it to safety along with other portable important objects. The rosetta stone has been on display in the british museum since 1802 with only one break. The rosetta stone has been on display at london s british museum since.
Britain should return the rosetta stone to egypt and replace it with a virtual reality replica says new head of giza museum. In an interview with the evening standard director of the new grand egyptian museum gem tarek tawfik said he was engaged in a vivid discussion regarding the return of the stone which had allowed 19 th century scholars to understand and translate egyptian. Yesterday egypt renewed its request for the british museum to return the prized rosetta stone to its country of origin.
It is the most visited object in the british museum. It s a story of accidental discovery warring empires and becoming the lynchpin to deciphering the ancient egyptian hieroglyphic alphabet. The rosetta stone is one of the famous objects in the british museum because of its history mystery and a story more interesting than any fictional adventure story.
The rosetta stone spent the next two years in a station on the postal. Towards the end of the first world war in 1917 when the museum was concerned about heavy bombing in london they moved it to safety along with other portable important objects. The rosetta stone has been exhibited in the british museum since 1802 with only one break.
Later the british consul general henry salt received permission from egypt s governor muhammad ali to collect antiquities many of which were acquired by the.
British museum egypt rosetta stone. The rosetta stone is one of the most visited objects in the museum and is equally popular online. Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the tablet that unlocked the secret of egyptian hieroglyphs. Plus find out more about egypt ancient and modern through video blog and collection highlights below. The rosetta stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in memphis egypt in 196 bc during the ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of king ptolemy v epiphanes the top and middle texts are in ancient egyptian using hieroglyphic and demotic scripts respectively while the bottom is in ancient greek the decree has only minor differences between the three versions.
After the british defeated the french they took some of their most important finds including the rosetta stone and the sarcophagus of the last egyptian pharaoh both displayed here.
After the british defeated the french they took some of their most important finds including the rosetta stone and the sarcophagus of the last egyptian pharaoh both displayed here. The rosetta stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in memphis egypt in 196 bc during the ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of king ptolemy v epiphanes the top and middle texts are in ancient egyptian using hieroglyphic and demotic scripts respectively while the bottom is in ancient greek the decree has only minor differences between the three versions. Plus find out more about egypt ancient and modern through video blog and collection highlights below.
Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the tablet that unlocked the secret of egyptian hieroglyphs. The rosetta stone is one of the most visited objects in the museum and is equally popular online.
