Egypt asks British Museum for the Rosetta Stone

SCA Chief Hawass wants the British Museum to lend the Rosetta Stone to Cairo. "I am not asking for all the objects in the British Museum to come back, only for the unique objects to come back to Egypt," he said. However, he said: “Its original place should be in Egypt. We can give the British Museum an artefact in its place.” He promised to return the relic after Egypt’s Grand Museum opens in 2013.