Influences on Ideas in The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone

Question 1

Which statement best describes Fourier’s influence on deciphering the Rosetta Stone?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Fourier helped inspire Champollion to work on the Stone’s inscriptions.

Question 2

How was Champollion’s early work similar to the work of de Sacy?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Both men thought that hieroglyphs stood for things rather than sounds.

Question 3

"Champollion hotly denied these suggestions"✔ "like de Sacy and earlier scholars, he believed the hieroglyphs represented things, not sounds""he had gotten the idea from Thomas Young's Encyclopedia Britannica article”"Then, in 1822, he reversed his position."

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ "like de Sacy and earlier scholars, he believed the hieroglyphs represented things, not sounds"

Question 4

How were Champollion and Young similar?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Both thought hieroglyphs represented sounds and tried to prove it by translating names.

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