ABSTRACT
The famous stone in the British Museum, Southern Egyptian Gallery, which is universally known as the 'Rosetta Stone', was discovered at a spot which lies a few miles to the north of the comparatively modern Arab, town of RashId, which Europeans generally call 'Rosetta'. According to the late Dr. Birch, though the reason for his statement is not apparent, the Stone appears to have been placed in a temple dedicated to Tum or Tomos, the setting Sun, originally erected in the reign of Nectanebo. A subsequent letter to the same effect from General Turner, being inserted in the following pages, the reader is referred to that for particulars. By the sixteenth article of the capitulation of Alexandria, the siege of which city terminated the labours of the British army in Egypt, all the curiosities, natural and artificial, collected by the French Institute and others, were to be delivered up to the captors.
