Influences on Ideas in The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone

Question 4 • DAEP-English 7 A(20 Day Term)

How were Champollion and Young similar?

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

Both believed hieroglyphs represented sounds and looked for proof in Egypt.

Both thought hieroglyphs represented sounds and tried to prove it by studying Greek monuments.

Both believed that hieroglyphs represented sounds and tried to prove it by looking for a second Rosetta Stone.

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Both Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion recognized that some hieroglyphs represented sounds, especially when spelling names. They tested this idea by comparing hieroglyphic spellings of names with known names, such as those on the Rosetta Stone. They did not rely on Greek monuments or search for another Rosetta Stone.

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