Quiz · Deciphering the Rosetta Stone

Question 1What is the main purpose of this listening passage?

To describe French forts built near the town of Rosetta To explain how one stone unlocked the Egyptian hieroglyphs To list the ancient languages once spoken in Egypt To tell the life story of a young French soldier

Question 2What did Champollion notice about royal names in the hieroglyphs?

They were always written in ancient Greek letters They were carved only on the walls of temples They repeated the same official decree three times They always appeared inside oval rings called cartouches

Question 3Why was the Greek script on the stone so important for scholars?

Scholars of the time could still read that language fluently It proved that the Greeks once ruled ancient Egypt It was the oldest of the three scripts on the stone It contained the royal names of all the pharaohs