Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Gibin. Some of these scholars made otherwise significant contributions to the world's knowledge of ancient Egypt. A German
priest of the 1600s, Athanasius Kircher, wrote the first grammar and vocabulary of Coptic, the language of Christian
Egypt. These books were to prove of great value when the hieroglyphs were eventually deciphered.
But Kircher's ideas about the hieroglyphs themselves were even farther off the mark than those of Horapollo. Looking
at a certain group of symbols—which actually stood for the name of a pharaoh-Kircher let his imagination run wid.
Without any evidence to support him, he said that the hieroglyphs meant "The blessings of the god Osiris are to be
procured by means of sacred ceremonies, in order that the benefits of the river Nile may be obtained."
Which sentence from this excerpt contains evidence that supports the claim?
But Kircher's ideas about the hieroglyphs themselves were even farther of the mark than those of Horapollo,
OA German priest of the 1600s, Athanasius Kircher, wrote the first grammar and vocabulary of Coptic, the language of
Christian Egypt
Looking at a certain group of symbols which actually stood for the name of a pharaoh - Kicher let his imagination
Some of these scholars made otherwise significant contributions to the world's knowledge of ancient Egypt
run wild