Based on The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, what is one way in which Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young are alike?

Both became discouraged and almost gave up their attempts to decipher the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone.
Both learned many different languages in their attempts to decipher the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone.
Both eventually came to believe that the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs represented sounds rather than things.
Both studied with Sylvestre de Sacy and based much of their own research on his beliefs about the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs.

The correct answer is: Both eventually came to believe that the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs represented sounds rather than things.

To arrive at this answer, one could read "The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone" and look for information about Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young. The book explains that both Champollion and Young independently worked to decipher the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone.

Champollion, a French scholar, started by studying the Demotic script, a simplified form of Egyptian hieroglyphs. He noticed that certain signs in the Demotic script resembled Greek names, which provided him with phonetic clues. Eventually, he came to believe that the hieroglyphs also represented sounds.

Young, an English polymath, made similar discoveries. He studied the demotic script, as well as Coptic (the last stage of the Egyptian language). Through comparative analysis of different languages and scripts, he also concluded that the hieroglyphs represented sounds.

Therefore, the answer is that both Champollion and Young eventually came to believe that the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs represented sounds rather than things.

One way in which Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young are alike is that both eventually came to believe that the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs represented sounds rather than things.