Study Guide
for The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone
How big is the Rosetta Stone?
Dr. Guignes
was correct when he guessed that the stone’s cartouches were what?
Who found the stone in
What does “demotic” mean?
What important observation
did Dr. Thomas Young make?
How was Jean-Francois Champollion unlike Thomas Young?
Champollion found a correlation between letters and hieroglyphs when he did
what?
What discovery did Champollion announce in his ground breaking book?
In 1829 Champollion
“got what he always wanted” when he did what?
Which Egyptians learned to
read and write?
Study Guide
for The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone
How big is the Rosetta Stone?
Dr. Guignes
was correct when he guessed that the stone’s cartouches were what?
Who found the stone in
What does “demotic” mean?
What important observation
did Dr. Thomas Young make?
How was Jean-Francois Champollion unlike Thomas Young?
Champollion found a correlation between letters and hieroglyphs when he did
what?
What discovery did Champollion announce in his ground breaking book?
In 1829 Champollion
“got what he always wanted” when he did what?
Which Egyptians learned to
read and write?