According to the British Museum, the institution acquired the Rosetta Stone in 1802, shortly after the British had won the artifact from the French. Because the museum couldn’t hold the stone ...

The original location was a 17th-century mansion called Montagu House. The Rosetta Stone and other artifacts soon proved too heavy for the home’s structure, however, and were moved to the museum ...

For non-history buffs, the Rosetta Stone was an Ancient Egyptian artifact that had the same text in three scripts- Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Ancient Greek. The Rosetta ...