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Natali5045456 [20]
3 years ago
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Young made several mistakes. He thought the third hieroglyph was part of the one for “T,” whereas it actually stood for the vowe

l “O.” The fourth hieroglyph, the lion, meant just “L,” the fifth meant “M,” and the last hieroglyph stood simply for “S.” In other words, the spelling in Egyptian was “Ptolmis,” not “Ptolemaios.” But Young got three out of the seven symbols right, which was a better score than any scholar before him had achieved. Young published his findings in an article written for the 1819 supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. He continued to work on the problem of the hieroglyphs in the years that followed, but made little headway in deciphering additional names and words. Why? Largely because he was working under a false assumption. Like countless other scholars over the centuries, Young still believed that most of the hieroglyphs must have a symbolic meaning. Only in special cases, such as foreign names, did he think that they were used to represent sounds. Because of this mistaken belief, Young put roadblocks in his own path. However, he had laid a solid groundwork for others in their attempts to decipher the hieroglyphs. And a young Frenchman, Jean-Francois Champollion, was ready to take up the challenge where Young had left off. —The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, James Cross Giblin Based on the passage, write two or three sentences explaining how the author feels about Thomas Young. Support your answer with examples from the reading.
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ValentinkaMS [17]3 years ago
3 0

The author feels like Thomas Young was a pioneer in the deciphering of hieroglyphs since he "got three out of seven symbols, which was a better score than any other scolar before him".

However, the author feels that Thomas Young was too confident in his assumptions, which caused him to fail in his task, and that he "put roadblocks in his own path".

Still, the author believes that Young's contribution was key to the final deciphering of the hieroglyphs, since he "laid a solid groundwork for others in their attempts to decipher the hieroglyphs".

Dovator [93]3 years ago
3 0

The author has a positive view of Young because Young made mistakes, but he also made more progress than earlier scholars. Young's work laid a groundwork for later scholars.

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