From the enigmatic Rosetta Stone in London’s British Museum to the celestial wonder of the Dendera Zodiac now gracing the Louvre ... its current location remains outside its homeland.

At some point the stone was moved from the temple at Sais in the Nile Delta, where we think it was first erected, to el-Rashid, or the town of Rosetta as we now know it, about 40 miles away.