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AssignmentMultiple Choice

Influences on Ideas in The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone

Question 3 • DAEP-English 7 A(20 Day Term)

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

Answer
A
They all studied the demotic passage.
B
They all constructed a demotic alphabet.
C
They turned attention to the hieroglyphs.
D
They realized that demotic script was a simpler form of hieroglyphics.

Explanation

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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