Case NOT so easily closed. Cultural treasures belong to the cultures. A good case can be made for that.
If tomorrow we discover Jesus’s personal wardrobe and clothes and other effects and it now belongs to the Museum of Saudi Arabia, I would be very upset.
I would want those artificats to belong to a Christian museum preferably a Museum based in the Holy Land where Jesus lived
Having the most important artifact of your culture belong to somone else is quite disturbing.
About the only thing that works AGAINST Egypt is this. Current Egyptian rulers are not real egyptians but Arab invaders.
The REAL descendants of the Egyptians are the Coptic Christians. So, if they set up a Museum, I would fully support the Rosetta Stone going there
Fine. Give the Hagia Sophia back to the Christians.
I would agree with you if the RS hadn’t been given to Britain via a legal treaty.
But the Rosetta Stone is an artifact of the rulers of Egypt, who at that time were the Ptolemaic Greeks, who aren't around to claim it, so possession nine points of the law.
Not quite. Most Muslim Egyptians are a mix of indigenous Egyptians, Arabs, Turks, Albanians (!), and Nubians, amongst others. The Copts tend to have more indigenous ancestry, but many also have Greek ancestry as well.