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Arrival at Portsmouth

When: February 1802
Where: Portsmouth
Part of: Rosetta Stone arrives in England and enters the British Museum

Colonel Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner brought the stone to England aboard HMS Égyptienne, landing in Portsmouth in February 1802.

The stone was transported on the captured French frigate HMS Égyptienne. It landed at Portsmouth in February 1802, following the British military victory in Egypt and the subsequent capitulation that allowed the British to take the artifact.

Sources

Rosetta Stone Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-21

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