Egypt demands return of Rosetta Stone!

The Sunday Telegraph - UK ^ | July 20, 2003 | Charlotte Edwardes and Catherine Milner

[sheik yerbouty]

Let the Egyptians pay for the Suez canal..

[exit82]

Trade it for the Suez Canal.

[Caipirabob]

Gee, if we don't do this, the Muslims might hate us...

[Eva]

Thanks. I saw the Rosetta Stone in the London museum and I still associated it with Babylonia (unbelievably stupid, I know). I do remember thinking that it was amazing that they seemed to have such a large collection of antiquities from ancient civilization in London.

[RJS1950]

Tell them it will happen as soon as the moslems evacuate/forever leave Jerusalem and all the other cities they took by the sword 1000 years ago. In other words eat s*%t and die.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

One word: "Don't."

One word: DO.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

NO NO NO a thousand times NO!!! You can't have it back!!!!

Of course they can have it back. There's no English on the Rosetta stone. hint: the English language wasn't invented when the stone was created England's only claim to ownership is through thievery. As for the bogus claim of "caring for the artefact!" Ha! delusional thinking leads to delusional conclusions.

[COBOL2Java]

Hmmm. I wonder where the stones in the crown jewels came from? Perhaps the Brits ought to return those, too?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Hmmm. I wonder where the stones in the crown jewels came from? Perhaps the Brits ought to return those, too?

If they were stolen, you betcha.

I guess I find it extremely amusing that the British can claim some kind of cultural superiority on possessing the Rosetta Stone or the Elgin marbles, when neither the British civilzation nor English language had existed when these artifacts were created.

Not happy with their own heritage, they have to steal others, I guess. Then come up with some kind of cock and bull story of how they are better suited to caring for an articfact that did not define their civilization. Its pretty distasteful. The last remnants of cultural jingoism. I thought we evolved beyound that.

[Ditter]

Delusional is thinking that if it had remained in Egypt it would have been *as safe & well cared for*, while being viewed by millions & millions of people.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

*as safe & well cared for*,

Oh goody! Someone who actually believes that the English (who haven't inherited the culture that created the Rosetta stone) is better to care for it than on that did? Wow! That's funny.

For starters, are you up to all the horrible nightmarish treatment that the Elgin marbles got (16 years out in the rain, in the damp North English climate -- that was after 2 years of 23 crates that had fallen over board and had to be retrieved from the water. -- Not to mention the fact that the marbles had to be cut up to fit into the crates in the first place .. then there's the acid bath that the marbles got by mistake ...

But what do you care? The British are caring for them. Yeah, right.

The Marbles, the Rosetta stone -- they don't belong in England. They never did.

[Ditter]

ooops Emma! Your anti British sympathies are showing. The Egyptians have really taken good care of their other antiquities the last few 1000 years. sarcasm////

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Your anti British sympathies are showing.

no. no. no. You're jumping to conclusions. I never said I was anti-British, I simply said that the British who never inherited that culture has a claim to it. Just like the Greeks have no claim to Shakespeare. Besides, Lord Byron agrees with me. (Read Childe Herold's Pilgramage and the Curse of Minerva).

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Besides, Lord Byron agrees with me.

Real good character witness there...

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Real good character witness there...

Since he's considered a saint of English literature, what's your point?

[Ditter]

You sound anti-British, Emma. What are you anyway..... Egyptian? You aren't proud enough of your state/country/heritage to put a flag on your homepage?

[Consort]

...How about Milburn Stone?

[dighton]

[Freedom4US]

They seem to have stolen it fair and square.. what's the problem? ;)

[Larry Lucido]