Inscribed in 196 B.C.E., the so-called Rosetta Stone was acquired by the British in the early 19th century and has been held for centuries in the storied British Museum. But its future placement ...

The Rosetta Stone has been in the British Museum since 1802. After securing the stone, British officials took it to London’s British Museum, which had opened in 1757 as the world’s first ...

The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC ... The Stone was brought back to the British Museum and immediately put on display - in the public domain, freely available for every scholar in the world ...

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The British Museum is the UK’s most popular tourist attraction, holding items including the Rosetta Stone, the Anglo-Saxon ship from Sutton Hoo and two stone moai from Rapa Nui (Easter Island).

For centuries, the Rosetta ... stone was spirited away for safekeeping. Later, after Napoleon’s crushing defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the stone became the property of the British ...

The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 BC ... The Stone was brought back to the British Museum and immediately put on display - in the public domain, freely available for every scholar in the world ...