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London - 2005
An afternoon in the British Museum
The Rosetta Stone and my son Viktor
From Fort St Julien, el-Rashid (Rosetta), Egypt
Ptolemaic Period, 196 BC
Valuable key to the decipherment of hieroglyphs
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Aug 07 2006 21:14 GMT flashfy
The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, with only one break. Towards the end of the First World War, in 1917, when the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London, they moved it to safety along with other, portable, 'important' objects. The Rosetta Stone spent the next two years in a station on the Postal Tube Railway fifty feet below the ground at Holborn.

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