Answer:
He decided the three hieroglyphs must represent the name of Thothmes, the "Child of Thoth," a pharaoh who ruled Egypt from 1501 to 1447 B.C.
Explanation:
This line is a description of a line of logical thinking employed by the explorer to decipher the secrets about the language of the people he was studying. The hieroglyphs here represented the name f the Pharaoh.
this was one of the steps towards deciphering the old Egyptian language which was conveyed through symbols and then from here was the language deciphered on the Rosetta stone following the same logic employed here.
Explanation:
Jean-Baptiste Fourier is a mathematician who became prefect of Isere, based in Grenoble and Jean-Francois Champollion went to study at the Lycee at Grenoble. Fourier save Champollion from induction into the military by pleading on his behalf.
Based on The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, the statements that best describes the influence of Fourier to Jean-Francois Champollion is the introduction of Champollion to a variety of languages which he became interested in and later learn the eastern languages and Egyptology. By age 16, he mastered Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, Ethiopian, Arabic and Greek. Eventually, he became a famous decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
