He decided the three hieroglyphs must represent the name of Thothmes, the "Child of Thoth," a pharaoh who ruled Egypt from 1501 to 1447 B.C.
Explanation:
This line is a description of a line of logical thinking employed by the explorer to decipher the secrets about the language of the people he was studying. The hieroglyphs here represented the name f the Pharaoh.
<u>this was one of the steps towards deciphering the old Egyptian language which was conveyed through symbols and then from here was the language deciphered on th</u>e Rosetta stone following the same logic employed here.
