Question

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?

Answer 1

Answer: A

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Answer 2

#1) Which is the best summary of this paragraph?

Answer: Out of all the options that are available, the one that best summarizes the paragraph shown above is the following: After Coptic became the prominent script, it was replaced by Arabic, which resulted in breaking society’s connection to ancient times.

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