Up until this time, everyone who tried to decipher the hieroglyphs thought they were a form of picture writing. The image of a lion must stand for a lion, or something associated with the animal - his power or his strength. Now Young made a leap of the imagination. It was like the inspired hunches that have led to so many of the great advances in science and technology over the ages. —The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, James Cross Giblin In this excerpt, Giblin explains the problems that historians had with the Rosetta stone. The information he presents is The details that he includes are for a reader to understand. The information his idea that understanding hieroglyphs was difficult.