The Rosetta Stone

[Who2]

Seems that Egypt wants the Rosetta Stone back for their new Giza Museum.
One doubts many people will actually visit the unfinished museum.
Dr Tarek Tawfik say's The British Museum can have a replica.
He has yet to write a letter requesting such, Dr Who say's 'the BM should send them a replica.....
Ps: If The British Museum starts repatriating everything it has stolen it would be empty, it's a slippery slope.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... Egypt.html

[newcastle]

They've been blathering about this ever since we took it off the frogs who took it from the Egyptians two centuries ago. When I say the French took it from the Egyptians, I really should say they took it from a southerly province of the Ottoman Empire - which is all Egypt was at the beginning of the 19th century.

His supreme hatship has made it his lifetime ambition to have this - and the Nefertiti bust - repatriated.

Fat chance! Even though the Rosetta Stone is probably immune to the dubious standards of "care" given by Egypt's museums, it would, as Who2 points out, set a dangerous precedent.

There's a nice replica in the Cairo museum. They can make do with that.

I think there's a reasonable case for lending the Stone for the inauguration of the GEM....but the problem is, would you trust the Egyptians to give it back?

[Horus]

Whatever next! the Greeks asking for the return of the Elgin Marbles?
At least we have a bargaining chip with those as in: “We will give you back the Elgin Marbles if you agree to take back all the Nana Mouskouri and Demis Roussos records” and as the later was born in Egypt that should please ‘The Twat in the Hat’