
In 1786 Sir William Jones,an expert in oriental studies,suggested that:
A) Mesopotamian civilization died out because of drought.
B) out of respect for the dead, ancient sites should not be excavated.
C) bones found in Anatolia matched those of an Egyptian mummy.
D) ancient Greek and Sanskrit descended from a common, Indo-European linguistic source.
E) the remains of the Trojan civilization could be found in northern Greece.
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