Which excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone shows a cause-and-effect relationship?
Answer
A
“The group traveled up the Nile in two boats, stopping along the way to copy inscriptions on temples and monuments.”
B
“A few experts challenged Champollion's methods and clung to the notion that the hieroglyphs had a purely symbolic meaning.”
C
“Scribes generally used the hieratic form when they were writing on papyrus, and hieroglyphs when they were carving inscriptions in plaster or limestone.”
D
“Once they had mastered the three kinds of Egyptian writing, nineteenth-century scholars had the key to more than three thousand years of Egyptian history.”