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30. It is pointed out in the passage that ----.
29. - 31. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre cevaplayınız.
A) French soldiers eventually discovered the Rosetta Stone
in 1799 after long and exhausting excavations
As much artefact as document, the Rosetta Stone is a slab B) a stone was found with a well-preserved form in a royal
of black basalt that bears an inscribed text in ancient Greek tomb called Rosetta from near Alexandria
and in two forms of old Egyptian writing: formal hieroglyphics
C) before the discovery and decoding of the Rosetta Stone,
(as seen on royal tomb walls) and the more common demotic
the Ancient Egyptian history seemed mysterious and
script. In 1799, during Napoleon’s occupation of Egypt,
inaccessible
some of his soldiers found this rock on the Rosetta fork of
D) three different artefacts were found with different
the Nile River near Alexandria. The stone was carved about
inscription styles but the same moral by the French
2,000 years earlier, in 196 BCE. When the French soldiers
soldiers
recovered the stone, nobody knew how to read hieroglyphics.
The Ancient Egyptian history seemed lost forever until E) Young and Champollion were called to decipher the
scholars Thomas Young and Jean Francois Champollion Rosetta inscriptions because of their unique expertise in
worked long and hard to decipher the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian inscriptions
establishing that the three texts all said the same thing in
different languages. Using his knowledge of ancient Greek,
Champollion was able to announce in 1822 that he could
read hieroglyphics. The Rosetta Stone provided an entryway
into the remote Egyptian past.

29. One can understand from the passage that ----. 31. According to the passage, ----.
A) the Rosetta Stone was discovered underground in an A) the Rosetta Stone was the first artefact having been
ancient Egyptian royal tomb deciphered and enlightened the royal life of ancient
Egyptians
B) Young and Champollion had worked hard to read
hieroglyphics until the discovery of Rosetta Stone B) Napoleon ordered some of his soldiers to search and find
the Rosetta Stone because he was aware of its value
C) partial erosion on the Rosetta Stone due to river water
made it hard to decipher inscriptions C) the efforts of Young and Champollion resulted in
the discovery of a unified message across the three
D) ancient Greek knowledge of Champollion paved the way
languages written on the Rosetta Stone
for understanding ancient Egypt
D) until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and its
E) Napoleon was deeply honoured by Egyptians after the
deciphering, remote Egypt past had been misunderstood
discovery of the Rosetta Stone
E) the Rosetta Stone allows access into the Ancient
Egyptian culture as well as Greek and French culture

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