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15 Solid Facts About the Rosetta Stone
Reading the English translation, I can’t help thinking – if I were hand-carving words into stone, I’d keep it a LOT pithier.
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From the linked piece:
After the British secured the stone, they took it to London’s British Museum, which had opened in 1757 as the world’s first public national museum. The original location was a 17th century mansion, but the Rosetta Stone and other artifacts soon proved too heavy for the home’s structure, and were moved to the current location in South Kensington.
Whoever wrote that has rather a strange idea of London’s geography. The British Museum is in Bloomsbury, several miles from South Kensington; my guess is that the author confused it with other museums (the Natural History museum, for example) in South Kensington. If you’re ever in London, you really should visit the British Museum. It’s amazing.
Is the current site where the original building was located? Is it the original building?
But you forget that these guys were on the clock; besides, it’s not like they were going rush home and catch “Jeopardy” on the TV.