When examining the Rosetta Stone, a French scholar found Ptolomy and Cleopatra's names written in Demotic, an Egyptian language, and was able to match those names to the Greek writing on the Stone. In this flash of insight, it was discovered that the same information was written in three languages, Demotic, Greek and . After this discovery, the tablet was decoded over three years.

When examining the Rosetta Stone, a French scholar found Ptolomy and Cleopatra's names written in Demotic, an Egyptian language, and was able to match those names to the Greek writing on the Stone. In this flash of insight, it was discovered that the same information was written in three languages, Demotic, Greek and . After this discovery, the tablet was decoded over three years.

a. Ancient Egyptian

b. Early French

c. Ancient Latin

d. Early Roman.

The correct answer is A) Ancient Egyptian

Explanation:

The Rosetta Stone is a stony slab with granular intrusive quartzose igneous rock surface discovered in 1799 which is inscribed with three copies of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

The  uppermost and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. The decree has only minor differences among the three versions, so the Rosetta Stone became the key to unlocking or interpreting Egyptian hieroglyphs, thus helping to understand ancient Egyptian history.

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