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Hassan then asked her, “Isn’t                                                                                                example. Actually it was the




            it wonderful to know that our                                                                                                Greek language that helped us




            ancestors first used drawings to                                                                                             understand Hieroglyphs; there




            write about their lives and ideas,                                                                                           is a famous stone called, the




            then many other languages were                                                                                               Rosetta stone, French soldiers




            a result of  many modifications                                                                                              found it in Egypt in 1799, it was




            to their language?” Sarah then                                                                                               inscribed with ancient Egyptian




            answered, “Of  course it is, but                                                                                             hieroglyphics and a




            was Hieroglyph the only ancient                                                                                              translation of  them




            language?” Hassan answered her,                                                                                              in Greek.




            “No little one, there were other




            languages like the Greek for an
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