Egyptian academic ask Britain to give back the Rosetta stone.
Dr.Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquates said Britain must return the icon of Egyptian identity which is kept in British Museum in central London.
He did not believe that Britain had looked after the stone properly.
“They kept it in dark badly lit room until I came and asked it and now it became important to them” said Dr. Zahi Hawass in his interview with “London Evening Standard” newspaper.
The Rosetta stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage two in Egyptian language scripts and one in classical Greek.
Rosetta stone was discovered by French troops 1799 in during Napoleons campaign in Egypt. It was given to British Museum by France for demonstrating in 1801 under the Treaty of Alexandria. Since that time it was kept in British Museum.
Randa El-Tahawy an Egyptian student of Westminster University says many of Egyptian historical heritage are displays in European Museums, because previously we couldn’t look after them properly but since Dr. Zahi assigned as a supreme council of antiquates the situation of historical ancient became batter. He is doing very good job he organized institution to look and repair all historical heritage. So now there is no reason to keep them outside of the country we should bring them back.
“Its our right to ask them back it’s a part of our culture we have to preserve it.” says Randa
Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments, including the Giza pyramid complex and its Great Sphinx.
The southern city of Luxor contains numerous ancient artifacts, such as the Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings. Egypt is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation of the Middle East. And to collect its entire ancient heritage they requested the return of the Rosetta stone in 2003 as well. But a Britain is not willing to give this stone back they said the collection must remain as a whole.
By Sadia Hasanzada
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He did not believe that Britain had looked after the stone properly.
“They kept it in dark badly lit room until I came and asked it and now it became important to them” said Dr. Zahi Hawass in his interview with “London Evening Standard” newspaper.
The Rosetta stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage two in Egyptian language scripts and one in classical Greek.
Rosetta stone was discovered by French troops 1799 in during Napoleons campaign in Egypt. It was given to British Museum by France for demonstrating in 1801 under the Treaty of Alexandria. Since that time it was kept in British Museum.
Randa El-Tahawy an Egyptian student of Westminster University says many of Egyptian historical heritage are displays in European Museums, because previously we couldn’t look after them properly but since Dr. Zahi assigned as a supreme council of antiquates the situation of historical ancient became batter. He is doing very good job he organized institution to look and repair all historical heritage. So now there is no reason to keep them outside of the country we should bring them back.
“Its our right to ask them back it’s a part of our culture we have to preserve it.” says Randa
Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments, including the Giza pyramid complex and its Great Sphinx.
The southern city of Luxor contains numerous ancient artifacts, such as the Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings. Egypt is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation of the Middle East. And to collect its entire ancient heritage they requested the return of the Rosetta stone in 2003 as well. But a Britain is not willing to give this stone back they said the collection must remain as a whole.
By Sadia Hasanzada
Image taken from this site:
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