Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone.

Then one day a colleague sent him a copy of an inscription that had been found in the ruins of a temple on the Nile River island of Philae.

Which statement best describes the influence his colleague's act had on Jean-François Champollion?

It was a breakthrough in his research.

It complicated his research.

It made his research worthless.

It was an obstacle to his research.

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Noe Bates

2 July, 06:08

Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone.

Then one day a colleague sent him a copy of an inscription that had been found in the ruins of a temple on the Nile River island of Philae.

Which statement best describes the influence his colleague's act had on Jean-François Champollion?

It was a breakthrough in his research.

It complicated his research.

It made his research worthless.

It was an obstacle to his research.

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William Newman · Answer 1

A.

Explanation:

As time passed, Champollion became more and more frustrated. Then one day a colleague sent him a copy of an inscription that had been found in the ruins of a temple on the Nile River island of Philae. Written in both hieroglyphs and Greek, the inscription was a royal decree issued by Pharaoh Ptolemy VII and his Queen, Cleopatra II. (This was not the famous Cleopatra, but an earlier one.)

Donte Decker · Answer 2

A it was a breakthrough in his research