Read the excerpt from the riddle of the rosetta stone by james cross giblin. the middle hieroglyph was unknown to him, but he guessed that the two at the left symbolized the sun. from his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? the details in the excerpt point to which big-picture idea?

The details of the excerpt point to the big-picture idea that prior to the decoding of the Rosetta Stone, there was much mystery surrounding Egyptian hieroglyphic writing because no one could read it. The Rosetta Stone was a piece of steel that had three languages (Demotic/Egyptian Language, Ancient Greek, and Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs) of a law decree by King Ptolemy V written upon it.

The reader of the excerpt is guided along through the deciphering of combinations of ancient hieroglyphs that seem to point to a former Egyptian Ruler, Rameses II or Ramesses II, (who's name literally means "Son of Ra"; Ra being the Egyptian God of the Sun).

Ramesses II was also known as Ramesses the Great and was one of the most celebrated Egyptian leaders of his time, which aligned him alongside Ra "the Egyptian Sun God" who is known to be one of the most important Egyptian Gods.

the part of the Bible in which Ramesses appeared

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