Which evidence from "the rosetta stone” supports the claim that thomas young played a key role in to decipher the hieroglyphs on the rosetta stone?

a) unfortunately, young abandoned his research, believing that the letters in the cartouche were just an exception . .

b) young used an old code breaker's technique of looking for a crib, or a word that can be identified in the text.

c) champollion deciphered the cartouche by identifying hieroglyphs translated by young, and he used his knowledge of coptic to discover that it belonged to the pharaoh ramses.

d) young's results were published and fell into the hands of a talented linguist, jean-francois champollion

C) Champollion deciphered the cartouche by identifying hieroglyphs translated by Young, and he used his knowledge of Coptic to discover that it belonged to the pharaoh Ramses.

A is wrong because abandoning your research does not lead to playing a key role. D is also wrong because while it states that Young's results were published, it doesn't indicate whether or not they were useful. B is the second-best answer since it shows that he made some progress using an old code breaker's technique but doesn't show that it was key role. Option C is best because it shows how Young's work was the stepping stone that Champollion needed to decipher the cartouche.

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