Next to the statues and the head, the slab seems
You have identified the claim and reason in the
unimpressive at first glance. It is roughly the size of a
passage. Write a few sentences explaining what the
tabletop-three feet nine inches long, two feet four and a
author will have to do in the rest of the book to develop
half inches wide, and eleven inches thick. But many
a truly strong viewpoint.
experts would say that this rather small piece of rock was
more valuable than any of the larger objects in the room.
For it is the famed Rosetta Stone, which gave nineteenth-
century scholars their first key to the secrets of ancient
Egypt.
-The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin