Egyptians call for the return of the Rosetta Stone and other ancient artifacts

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel I agree. I actually signed the petition asking that Egypt, again, request the return. They make an extensive case, a good case, partly about the safety of the artifacts which has long been an excuse for not returning them.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Not the first time the Rosetta Stone has been asked to be returned
In Nov. 2010, Egyptian antiquities expert Zahi Hawass told NPR that he was fighting to have the Rosetta Stone returned to Egypt from the British Museum.

His comments were made after the Metropolitan Museum in New York had said at the time that it would return 19 small objects from King Tut's tomb to Egypt.

"I need these unique objects back and I will fight to return them back," Hawass told NPR at the time. "Anything that left illegally, it should be back to Egypt."

While the Rosetta Stone's place in history looms large for archeologists, the short message on it proved to be inconsequential.

It was the fact that the same message was written in three languages – ancient Greek, Demotic, and Hieroglyphs – that made the lynchpin to understanding Egypt's ancient written language and civilization."

Bad idea. What do you think will happen to it when radical Islamists take over Egypt? They'll destroy it just like the Taliban destroyed the 4 Buddha monuments.