Repatriate Rashid, the team behind the campaign, is asking Britain to give back several artefacts that were illegally taken from the country.
A statement from
the campaign group said: "History can’t be changed, but it can be corrected. And despite the withdrawal of political, military, and governmental rule of the British Empire from Egypt over a century ago, decolonisation is far from being over.
"This is a powerful opportunity for Britain to demonstrate moral leadership, and to choose to follow moral principle over profit and support the healing of the wounds inflicted by colonial powers. An act of Parliament will allow Rosetta Stone to be restored to its rightful home in Egypt."
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Speaking to
CBS, Monica Hanna, an academic helping lead the petition to return the stone to Egypt, said: "Previously it was the government alone asking for Egyptian artifacts, but today this is the people demanding their own culture back."
"Definitely all these objects are going to be repatriated, it is just a matter of when," she added.
