Question

In the seventh century B.C. Psamtick I, King of Egypt, wanted to prove the long-held belief that the Egyptians were the most ancient race on earth. Psamtick kidnapped two infants of a lower-class mother and ordered a herdsman in a remote area to raise them. The herdsman was instructed to never do what to the children?

Answer 1

The Egyptians had long believed that they were the most ancient race on earth, and Psamtik, driven by intellectual curiosity, wanted to prove that flattering belief. Like a good psychologist, he began with a hypothesis: If children had no opportunity to learn a language from older people around them, they would spontaneously speak the primal, inborn language of humankind—the natural language of its most ancient people—which, he expected to show, was Egyptian.

Told the herdsman never tell anyone about it