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Thomas Young (scientist)

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Thomas Young (scientist)
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Egyptian hieroglyphs Young used the Greek text on the Rosetta Stone to test a specific guess about an oval enclosure called a cartouche. He worked out that it held the name Ptolemy. A name in a language he could read gave him a way to check the sound values of signs in a script he couldn't yet read.
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