Describing the Author's Attitude Based on the passage, write two or three sentences
explaining how the author feels about Thomas Young.
Support your answer with examples from the reading.
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Young made several mistakes. He thought the third
hieroglyph was part of the one for "T," whereas it actually
stood for the vowel "O." The fourth hieroglyph, the lion,
meant just "L," the fifth meant "M," and the last
hieroglyph stood simply for "S." In other words, the
spelling in Egyptian was "Ptolmis," not "Ptolemaios."
But Young got three out of the seven symbols right, which
was a better score than any scholar before him had
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 words. Why? Largely
because he was working under a false assumptien.
Like countless other scholars over the centuries, Young
still believed that most of the hieroglyphs must have a
symbolic meaning. Only in special cases, such as foreign names, did he think that’s they were used to represent sounds .

Because of this mistaken belief, 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 off