| ROSETTASTONE | Rock slab discovered in Egypt in 1799 now housed in the British Museum |
| ELGIN | ___ Marbles (Parthenon details now housed in the British Museum) |
| TECTONIC | ____ plates, large rock slabs in the Earth's crust constantly moving in relation to each other (8) |
| KOHINOOR | Famous Indian diamond now housed in the Tower of London (3-1-4) |
| ROSETTA | --- stone, an inscribed slab discovered in Egypt in 1799 (7) |
| BEOWULF | Old English epic poem preserved in the manuscript Cotton Vitellius A.xv, housed in the British Library since 1973 (7) |
| ZETLAND | What is the name of the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world, currently housed in the museum in Redcar, England? (7) |
| ELGINMARBLES | Marble sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens now held in the British Museum (5,7) |
| VANDAL | One of those damaging material in The British Museum gets jail in the end (6) |
| STARRYNIGHT | The ___ an oil on canvas by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh which is housed in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC: 2 wds. |
| DESERTRATS | Nickname of the British Army's 7th Armoured Division, formed in Egypt in 1938. (6,4) |
| EIGHTY | --- Army, a British field army during the Second World War, formed in Egypt in 1941 (6) |
| ALEUTIAN | Name shared by island chain and heavyweight office car built by Pullman for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and now housed at the US National Museum of Transportation (8) |
| DANCE | 1910 painting by Henri Matisse, housed in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg (5) |
| NAUCRATIS | Ancient Greek city in Egypt, in the Nile delta (9) |
| ELALAMEIN | Site of two battles in Egypt in 1942, part of the Western Desert Campaign (2,7) |
| STAMNOS | An ancient Greek amphora-like two-handled jar such as the Siren Vase exhibited in the British Museum (7) |
| BECHARM | Delight with English tea in the British Museum (7) |
| STONE | This object, on display in the British Museum, was key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. (7,5) |
| BENIN | Source of old West African metal plaques and statues, many still held in the British Museum (5) |
