Rosetta stone home!
- A group of Egyptian archaeologists asks the British Museum to return the Rosetta stone to Egypt.
The Rosetta stone that enabled the decipherment of hieroglyphic writing has been at the British Museum in London since 1802. Recently a group of Egyptian archaeologists has asked the museum to return the stone to Egypt and has received thousands of signatures and accessions.
In the words of Monica Hanna, dean of the Faculty of Archaeology of Aswán, the purpose of the petition is “to explain what has taken away the Egyptians. I'm sure that the Rosetta stone and all the objects they brought will be returned one day, because the ethical code of museums is changing. The question is when it will happen.”
The Centre Tricontinental has described the historical resistance of the Congolese in the dossier The Congolese Fight for Their Own Wealth (the Congolese people struggle for their wealth) (July 2024, No. 77). During the colonialism, the panic among the peasants by the Force... [+]
New York, 1960. At a UN meeting, Nigeria’s Foreign Minister and UN ambassador Jaja Wachucu slept. Nigeria had just achieved independence on 1 October. Therefore, Wachuku became the first UN representative in Nigeria and had just taken office.
In contradiction to the... [+]
Washington (EE.UU. ), 1807. The US Constitution banned transatlantic slave trade. This does not mean that slavery has been abolished, but that the main source of the slaves has been interrupted. Thus, slave women became the only way to “produce” new slaves.
So in 1845, in... [+]
It is no coincidence that Columbus Day, that of the Civil Guard and the Virgen del Pilar coincided on that date. The three represent oppressive structures (statue, army and church). On the other hand, there is indigenous resistance and population that the Spanish State... [+]
The name of the Txagos Archipelago is commonly known by crossword fans, and by very few more. If you mention the largest of these islands, Diego García, we would be a little more what we have said: the fame – not sweet – that has achieved the US military base that is there,... [+]
From the Mountain of Navarre, thousands of people took to America in the 19th century to survive in grazing or other activities. Historian Raquel Idoate recovers in her thesis the history of some 4,000 of them: how the trip was made, how they were invested in, roles about... [+]