What characteristic has to be present for a government to be an oligarchy?

Oligarchy comes from the Greek meaning the rule of the few, and it's often used as a pejorative way of alluding to aristocracy; to consider a government as oligarchy the power of a nation or country must be held by a small group, or few privileged people, and usually the way of governing is despotic, unjust and exercised by incompetent rulers instead of the best and most suitable people.

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion