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This picture taken on September 16, 2022 shows a view of the Zodiac of Dendera, a celestial map dating from around 50 BC and regarded as "the only complete map that we have of an ancient sky", which was removed from the Temple of Hathor in Qena in southern Egypt on the orders of French official Sebastien Louis Saulnier in 1820, suspended on display from a ceiling in the Louvre Museum in Paris since 1922. - Ahead of the bicentenary of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone -- which unlocked the key to reading ancient hieroglyphs -- and the 100th anniversary of Carter's earth-shattering discovery, Egyptians are demanding that their contributions to the discoveries be recognised and artefacts abroad returned. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Photo by JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images)