Thousands of Egyptians have signed an online petition that called for the return of the Rosetta stone and other ancient Egyptian artifacts housed by the British Museum in London.
The petition, written by a group of Egyptian archaeologists, asked for the return of the ancient stone, which helped scientists decode Egyptian hieroglyphs 200 years ago. The archaeologists requested that Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly"work hard through all the diplomatic and legal means" to retrieve the stone, along with 16 other artifacts obtained by England in the Treaty of Alexandria in 1801.
The organizers of the petition believe that because artifacts such as the Rosetta stone have not been returned,"decolonisation is far from being over."
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