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Based on the passage, why was it so important that the
scholars figured out that the inscription was the same
in all three languages on the stone?

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It was an important discovery because they would be able to compare the inscription they could translate with the hieroglyphs. This ability would allow them to find the hieroglyphs that meant the same thing as the words they knew.

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Even without the passage, we can tell this question refers to the Rosetta Stone and its inscriptions, which makes it possible to answer it in the following manner:

It was so important that the scholars figured out that the inscription was the same in all three languages because that is what made it possible to understand hieroglyphs for the first time.

  • The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 when the French army was tearing down a fort wall in the city of Rosetta.
  • In the ruins, they found the stone containing the same inscription in three languages.
  • One of the inscriptions was in ancient Greek. The other was in demotic, a form of Egyptian. Since both could be understood, scholars were able to see that they were both about the same thing.
  • Thus, the inscription that they could not understand - in hieroglyphs, another form of Egyptian writing - was most likely about the same thing as the other two.
  • That discovery made it possible to translate hieroglyphs for the very first time.
  • It was Jean-François Champollion who first translated it.
  • In conclusion, the discovery of the three inscriptions saying the same thing was important because it made it possible to understand hieroglyphs.

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