Egypt Asks British Museum For Loan Of Rosetta Stone

Will the museum let it go? “It is probably the single most-visited object in the BM’s entire collection, attracting even more visitors than the Parthenon Marbles. The Rosetta Stone has been at the museum since 1802, and has only left the building twice–when it was evacuated during World War I and when it was lent to the Louvre for one month in 1972.”