Read the passage and the preface from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone. State the organizational structure of the passage. Then, state the main idea of the text feature. Last, write two sentences about about what the text organization and preface help the reader understand about the Rosetta Stone.

Chapter:

A large, heavy package arrived at the scholars’ palace in Cairo. When they opened it, they found it contained a black stoned slab covered with writing in three different scripts. A note from a French army officer was inside the package saying that the stone had been unearthed in an old fort near the town of Rosetta, thirty-five miles north of Alexandria, Egypt. French soldiers were tearing down a ruined wall in the fort when they came upon the slab.

Preface:

Before the Rosetta Stone was found, Egyptian history was lost to the world. The only clues were the mysterious picture writings that adorned temples and pyramids. For hundreds of years, scholars struggled to decipher these hieroglyphs. Then, in 1799, soldiers in Napoleon’s army stumbled on the Rosetta Stone.