Press & Media

News About the RTS Campaign

• Second Return The Stone Campaign protest takes place inside the British Museum with five silent protesters from four different countries (December 2023)
• Campaign founder conducts first-ever protest inside the British Museum to call for the return of the Rosetta Stone to Egypt (October 2022)
• New advocacy campaign and global petition launched to compel the return of the Rosetta Stone to Egypt (October 2021)

The Rosetta Stone in the News

• New British Museum boss opens door to Parthenon marbles return (July 2024)
• Can you steal back something that’s already stolen? (April 2024)
• Repatriation and Replicas (March 2024)
• A ‘Digital Heist’ Recaptures the Rosetta Stone (August 2023)
• Who should own the Benin bronzes or the Rosetta stone? (August 2023)
• Why the British Museum Is Asking the Public for Help Finding Missing Artifacts (September 2023)
• The Guardian view on the Rosetta Stone: a monument to code-breaking (September 2022)
• The True Stories of 10 of the Most Disputed Objects at the British Museum (December 2021)
• The Masterpieces That Napoleon Stole, and How Some Went Back (June 2021)
• Rosetta Stone will never return to Egypt, says expert at £1bn museum in Cairo (February 2020)
• Priceless Treasures and Their Shaky Pedestals (January 2020)
• Should the British Return the Stolen Rosetta Stone to Egypt? (March 2019)

Other Artifact Repatriation News

• Artifacts Looted 80 Years Ago Repatriated to Okinawa (May 2024)
• King Ramses II head back in Egypt (April 2024)
• China’s cultural relics repatriation drive gains momentum as 38 artifacts return (April 2024)
• Online Activists Are Driving the Fight to Get Stolen Artifacts Repatriated to Nepal (February 2024)
• U.S. museum returns artifacts to Ghana that were looted 150 years ago by British forces (February 2024)
• British Museum Lends Ghana Looted Gold Artifacts—Here’s Why It Won’t Fully Return Them (January 2024)
• Museums cover Native displays after new repatriation rules (January 2024)
• Was 2023 the Year Looted Art Returned Home? (December 2023)
• The Met Will Repatriate 16 Artifacts to Cambodia and Thailand (December 2023)
• Manchester Museum Returns 174 Artifacts to Indigenous Australians (September 2023)
• A Dozen Looted Artifacts Are Returned to Lebanon (September 2023)
• Mexico announces the repatriation of 1,294 archaeological artifacts from California (September 2023)
• The belated return of Indonesian artifacts from the Netherlands (September 2023)
• Multiple Countries Renew Repatriation Efforts Amidst British Museum Controversy (August 2023)
• National Gallery of Australia to return bronze artifacts believed stolen to Cambodia (August 2023)
• Italy repatriates looted ancient artifacts from the US (August 2023)
• The U.S. Has Returned 266 Ancient Artifacts, Including Roman Coins and Etruscan Tile Paintings, to Italy (August 2023)
• The Netherlands Repatriates Nearly 500 Looted Artifacts to Sri Lanka and Indonesia (July 2023)
• Italy Is Calling on the Louvre to Repatriate Seven Ancient Artifacts of Questionable Provenance (July 2023)
• Artifacts Stolen From Kenya Decades Ago Are Returned (July 2023)
• Museums: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (October 2022)
• New York returns $19m worth of stolen art to Italy (September 2022)
• A London museum agrees to return more than 70 pieces of looted Nigerian art (August 2022)
• Protesters Gather Outside British Museum to Call for Parthenon Marbles’ Return (June 2022)
• Egyptian antiquities connected to international trafficking ring seized from Metropolitan Museum in New York (June 2022)
• Former head of Louvre is charged in artifact trafficking case (May 2022)
• A masterpiece that symbolizes the ongoing struggle to return Nazi-looted art (May 2022)
• An art sleuth from Chennai is taking on traffickers in a $10 billion black market (April 2022)
• US restitution of 200 Italian artefacts a ‘watershed’ moment, Carabinieri chief says, as looted art trove arrives in Rome (December 2021)
• Hamburg shows its Benin artefacts before restituting them to Nigeria (December 2021)
• Looted Guatemalan and Mexican artefacts—stashed in a German farmhouse cellar—are returned (November 2021)
• The Met repatriates looted Benin works (November 2021)
• In returning an ancient gold ewer to Turkey, the UK’s Gilbert Trust made the right decision (October 2021)
• Maqdala treasures looted by British troops returned to Ethiopia in ‘largest single restitution’ (September 2021)
• Museum of the Bible Returns Artifacts to Egypt (January 2021)
• After a Year of Inaction, France Commits to Returning 26 Looted Artifacts to Benin by 2021 (December 2019)
• France returns Omar Tall’s sword to Senegal (October 2019)
• France’s Louvre museum returns five frescoes to Egypt (December 2009)