Identify one way in which the work of de Sacy, Akerblad, and Young was similar.

All three scholars worked on the demotic text on the Rosetta Stone. De Sacy and Akerblad made early efforts to decipher it, and Young also studied the demotic passage as part of his work. They did not all construct a demotic alphabet or focus on hieroglyphs in the same way.

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