A new movement is afoot to return one of history’s most important objects to its home. In this case, the squeaky wheels are right. The Rosetta Stone, long one of the jewels of the collection at the British Museum in London, should return to Egyptian hands.

The black slab, discovered in 1799 during Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt, has inscriptions of a decree issued by an ancient king in three languages: ancient Greek, Demotic and ancient Egyptian. When British forces overtook the French, the stone went to the U.K. — and it was scholars there who cracked the code, realizing that it gave them the ability to translate previously mysterious hieroglyphics.

But the tablet was never the rightful possession of the Brits. In 2005, answering Cairo’s requests to turn the stone over, the British Museum presented Egypt with a full-sized fiberglass replica of the slab. As 2,500 archaeologists now urge in a new petition, that was woefully insufficient. Just a century ago, Egypt was a colony of the U.K., and raw wounds understandably remain.

England may have been the West’s most energetic colonizer for a time, but it was not the only one, which is why improperly seized artifacts are scattered the world over. Some holdings of great museums from the Louvre to the Prado to the Hermitage to the Metropolitan Museum of Art were legitimately acquired — or illegitimately required, with disputes later resolved through treaties. Others were not.

Judgments on returning objects should be case-by-case. It’s legally unclear whether the Elgin Marbles, for instance, were legitimately acquired, and moving them likely saved them from ruin. With other artifacts, the “original” owners were not themselves legitimate, and there’s no logical local inheritor. Nor should a treasure be returned if doing so would jeopardize it or keep it from public view.

As those who run the Met — who have voluntarily returned many valuable artifacts over the years — understand well, rebalancing the scales can hurt. But a little pain brings moral and historical gain.

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