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France to return Egyptian art ... The bust is in Berlin’s Egyptian Museum; the Rosetta Stone is in the British Museum in London. Front Section, Pages 2 on 10/10/2009. Popular Stories.
The pottery wheel from Mesopotamia first appeared in Egypt at about the time the man lived, a period when the earliest ...
Artist unknown, Rosetta Stone, 196 BCE, carved grey and pink granodiorite stela on display in Room 4. Courtesy of the British Museum. It’s nearly impossible to address the topic of looted artworks and ...
The Rosetta Stone is widely considered one of archaeology's most significant finds. A decree from Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V carved in 196 BCE, the stone is inscribed with three distinct languages ...
The first crate carrying a portion of a 9,700-pound statue of the Egyptian god, Hapy is maneuvered into the main entrance of the St. Louis Art Museum on Monday March 12, 2018.
PARIS — France’s culture minister agreed today to return five painted wall fragments to Egypt after a row over their ownership prompted the Egyptians to cut ties with the Louvre Museum.
A trio of gold rings — one affixed with a carnelian stone etched with a sphinx, another made into a tiny replica of a lantern and the third crafted to look like two heads — are expected to go ...