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Egypt campaigners demand artefact returns after Dutch govt agrees to send back 3,500-year-old stone head

  • Move comes as Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo opens to the public
  • Zahi Hawass, Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities, starts petition to return Rosetta Stone, plus items from Paris and Berlin
By Arab News ·

Seven hotly contested Mideast artifacts found everywhere but the Middle East

By Rawaa Talass ·

Egyptians call on British Museum to return Rosetta Stone

By AP ·
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Cracking the Rosetta code: How a black slab of stone unlocked a world to an ancient Egyptian civilization 

By Jonathan Gornall ·

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