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Describing the Author's Attitude
achieved
Young published his findings in an article written for the
1819 supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. He
continued to work on the problem of the hieroglyphs in
the years that followed, but made little headway in
deciphering additional names and wor A Largely
because he was working under a false
Like countless other scholars over the
still believed that most of the hieroglyphs to
symbolic meaning. Only in special cases, such as
names, did he think that they were used to represent
sounds
Because of this mistaken belief, Young put roadblocks in
his own path. Honever, he had laid a solid groundwork
for others in their attempts to decipher the hieroglyphs.
And a young Frenchman, Jean-Francois Champollion,
was ready to take up the challenge where Young had left
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