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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
It was through Rosetta stone that ancient Egyptian writing came to be deciphered
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Because the inscriptions say the same thing in three different scripts, and scholars could still read Ancient Greek, the Rosetta Stone became a valuable key to deciphering the hieroglyphs .

Detailed explanation-2: -With the help of the Rosetta Stone, Jean-Francois Champollion created an alphabet of phonetic hieroglyphs. Other scholars were able to use it to translate the inscription completely. “Thanks to the Rosetta Stone, Champollion was able to decipher the hieroglyphs.

Detailed explanation-3: -Egyptologists were able to decode the writing on the stone because, uniquely, its inscription is written in three parallel languages: everyday script; the official language, Greek; and those mysterious hieroglyphs.

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