Question

Which evidence from "The Rosetta Stone” supports the claim that Thomas Young played a key role in helping to decipher the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone?

Unfortunately, Young abandoned his research, believing that the letters in the cartouche were just an exception . . .
Young used an old code breaker's technique of looking for a crib, or a word that can be identified in the text.
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.
Young's results were published and fell into the hands of a talented linguist, Jean-Francois Champollion.

Answer 1

Statements 2, 3, and 4 support that Young played a key role.

- 2: shows he contributed a deciphering method (looking for a crib).
- 3: says Champollion used hieroglyphs translated by Young, directly crediting Young’s work.
- 4: says Young’s results reached Champollion, indicating his findings helped later progress.

Statement 1 does not support the claim — it says Young abandoned his research, which argues against him continuing to lead the work.