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It helped decipher hieroglyphics, and now Egyptians want it back from the British Museum.

Thousands of Egyptians have demanded the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum.

The debate over who owns ancient artifacts has been an increasing challenge to museums across Europe and America, and the spotlight has fallen on the most visited piece in the British Museum: The Rosetta Stone. The inscriptions on the dark grey granite slab became the seminal breakthrough in deciphering ancient…

Thousands of Egyptians are demanding that the British Museum return the Rosetta Stone

The Horniman Museum in south-east London officially handed over ownership of the artefacts to the Nigerian government on Monday

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday there was "progress" and a sense of "momentum" in talks with Britain to reunite the Parthenon Sculptures in Greece.

There are questions about whether thousands of items which are held at institutions globally, including the British Museum, will ever be sent back.

Six objects stolen by British soldiers in 19th century are handed over in ceremony at Horniman Museum

16th-century work Epifania is one of only two existing cartoons by the Italian master

Letter: Our hypothesis that the ‘fake’ Roman emperor was in fact real is based on a wealth of evidence, writes Prof Paul Pearson

Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends – all in your weekly dispatch