Question

Read the excerpt from "The Rosetta Stone.”

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?


After Coptic became the prominent script, it was replaced by Arabic, which resulted in breaking society’s connection to ancient times.

For many centuries, people who spoke a variety of different languages tried to figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs.

Hieroglyphs are letters, not symbols representing a whole idea, which many scholars throughout history were not aware of.

For a long time, scholars from different places tried to figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs, but they mistakenly believed each hieroglyph was a symbol.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

For many centuries, people who spoke a variety of different languages tried to figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs.

Step-by-step explanation:

To summarize means to write in a short yet precise way. This means that the given passage has to be rewritten shorter but also retaining the main ideas and points given in it.

The given passage from "The Rosetta Stone" talks about how the means and desire of many experts to try to decipher the stone led to many diverse scholars. First, it was the Egyptians, then Coptic, followed by Arabic, and then western scholars. Passing through all these experts, the process of deciphering the hieroglyphs was the result of the efforts of people despite the variety in their language uses.

Therefore, the best summary of the given passage is that for many centuries, people who spoke a variety of languages tried to figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs.