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 ...

In fact, many travelers say it's the best museum in all of London. What's more, it's free to visit. From the Rosetta Stone to the Parthenon Sculptures to Mesopotamian objects, the British Museum ...

Home to some of the world’s most extraordinary artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the Elgin Marbles, the British Museum is ...

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 ...

The Western Range makes up one third of the museum’s footprint and is home to the collections from ancient Egypt, Greece, and ...

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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 ...