subject
English, 14.12.2020 23:30 elrancho

Read the excerpt from "The Rosetta Stone.” Egyptian scripts were replaced with Coptic, which included six demotic characters. In the ninth century, Arab scholar Abu Bakr Ahmad Ibn-Wahshiyah was able to partly decipher the hieroglyphs by comparing them to Coptic. But in the eleventh century, it too was replaced, by Arabic. The link was once again severed. For centuries, Western scholars tried to decipher the hieroglyphs, with little success. They were working under a false hypothesis, that the hieroglyphs were pictograms, with each symbol representing an object or an idea. Which is the best summary of this paragraph? After Coptic became the prominent script, it was replaced by Arabic, which resulted in breaking society’s connection to ancient times. For many centuries, people who spoke a variety of different languages tried to figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs are letters, not symbols representing a whole idea, which many scholars throughout history were not aware of. For a long time, scholars from different places tried to figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs, but they mistakenly believed each hieroglyph was a sym

ansver
Answers: 2

Another question on English

question
English, 21.06.2019 16:00
Explain the way that fay weldon appeals to her reader's logic and emotions in "letters to alice on first reading jane austen." your answer should be at least one hundred words.
Answers: 2
question
English, 21.06.2019 16:30
Which revision fixes the dangling modifier in this sentence? while reading a new mystery book, my dog curled up in my lap and slept. a.) curled up in my lap, my dog slept while reading a new mystery book. b.) while i was reading a new mystery book, my dog curled up in my lap and slept. c.) my dog, while reading a new mystery book, curled up in my lap and slept. d.) curling up in my lap while reading a new mystery book, my dog slept.
Answers: 1
question
English, 22.06.2019 09:50
How does athena disguise odysseus before he sees eumaeus?
Answers: 1
question
English, 22.06.2019 11:30
Each pronoun should refer to a specific: pronoun n place idea verb person preposition thing
Answers: 1
You know the right answer?
Read the excerpt from "The Rosetta Stone.” Egyptian scripts were replaced with Coptic, which include...
Questions
question
Mathematics, 05.03.2021 18:40
question
Mathematics, 05.03.2021 18:40
question
Health, 05.03.2021 18:40
question
Mathematics, 05.03.2021 18:40
question
Mathematics, 05.03.2021 18:40