Eltayeb Abbas, the head of archaeology at the Grand Egyptian Museum, says that as much as he’d like to have the artifact back, he doubts that the real-life Rosetta Stone will ever return to Egypt.

It was in these volatile circumstances that Ptolemy V issued the Rosetta Stone, and others like it. The Stone is not unique; there are another 17 similar inscriptions quite like it, all in three ...

For centuries, the Rosetta Stone has been revered as a monumental ... on the subject as “illogical”, he said. “You sound like an Australian student who wants to do Aboriginal studies in ...