A private, ticket-included tour of the real British Museum, home to the Rosetta Stone.
A private tour for your group only, with real tickets included — the British Museum's genuine world treasures, including the Rosetta Stone.
This is a private tour for your group only, with real tickets included. Genuine world treasures are covered, including the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon Sculptures.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup anywhere in central London.
A strongly-reviewed private museum tour.
Genuine, world-famous ancient artifact.
Genuine, included museum access.
Dedicated, genuine expertise for your group only.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, with real tickets included — the British Museum's genuine world treasures, including the Rosetta Stone. This is a private tour for your group only, with real tickets included. Genuine world treasures are covered, including the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon Sculptures.
The Rosetta Stone, the museum's single most-requested artifact, wasn't actually found by the British at all — it was uncovered in July 1799 by a French army engineer, Pierre-François Bouchard, during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, built into a fort wall near the town of Rosetta. France's Egyptian campaign collapsed shortly after, and the stone passed to British hands under the 1801 surrender terms, arriving at the museum by 1802.
What makes it genuinely historic isn't just its age — carved in 196 BC — but that the same decree is inscribed in three scripts: hieroglyphics, Demotic Egyptian, and ancient Greek. That overlap gave scholars Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion the key to finally cracking hieroglyphic writing, a breakthrough completed in 1822.
With real, included tickets, the tour moves straight into the collection rather than spending time in admission queues, giving your private guide more room to connect the Rosetta Stone's story to the wider sweep of world treasures the museum holds, all within a brisk 2-hour format.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.