News About the RTS Campaign
- 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
- 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
- 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)
For Press & Media Inquiries about the Rosetta Stone and/or the RTS Campaign
For press inquiries, photos, quotes, or interview requests related to the Rosetta Stone, the ReturnTheStone.org campaign, and/or The Global Petition to Return the Rosetta Stone to Egypt, please email info@returnthestone.org.
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