Question

historians havent always been able to read ancient egyptian hieroglyphics. read about how historians learned to understand hieroglyphs. then answer the question below.
by around 30 bce, people no longer wrote in egyptian hieroglyphs. because no one used them, people quickly forgot how to understand and translate hieroglyphic texts. so, for over 1,700 years, the meaning of ancient egyptian writing was lost to the world.
but in 1799 ce, a french soldier discovered a heavy black stone near the egyptian town of rosetta. the rosetta stone had a decree from king ptolemy v carved into it in three different languages: greek, demotic egyptian, and hieroglyphic egyptian. people still spoke greek, so scholars were able to use the greek words to read and translate the egyptian hieroglyphs.
scholars were finally able to understand ancient egyptian hieroglyphs!
demotic egyptian: a simplified form of egyptian writing
how did the rosetta stone help scholars understand egyptian hieroglyphs?
it allowed scholars to translate between egyptian hieroglyphs and greek.
it showed egyptian hieroglyphs on one side and english on the other.
it was a computer program that explained how to read egyptian hieroglyphs.
it taught scholars how to pronounce hieroglyphic words.

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze each option:

1. The Rosetta Stone had the same decree in Greek (a known language) and hieroglyphic Egyptian. So scholars used Greek to translate hieroglyphs. This matches the first option.
2. The stone didn't have English (option 2 is wrong).
3. Computers didn't exist then (option 3 is wrong).
4. The stone was about translation, not pronunciation (option 4 is wrong).

Answer:

A. It allowed scholars to translate between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Greek.