Read the facts about the Rosetta Stone. Ancient Egyptians wrote extensively in hieroglyphs, which
used pictures to represent words.
Scholars were unable to read Egyptian hieroglyphs until 1799, when the Rosetta Stone was discovered.
The Rosetta Stone allowed translation of Egyptian
hieroglyphs into Greek

How did the discovery of the Rosetta Stone change
historical conclusions about ancient Egypt?

A. It allowed historians to better understand the Greek
point of view.
B. It opened the possibility of the discovery of new
historical evidence.
C. It changed or informed previous theories about
ancient Egypt.
D. It supported all of the original interpretations about life
in ancient Egypt
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