Question

From 1650 onward, Kircher produced several volumes of such nonsense. It earned him a reputation for being an expert on the hieroglyphs—a reputation that lasted, unfortunately, long after his death in 1680. Which sentence from this excerpt is a fact?

Answer 1

Answer:

"A German priest of the 1600s, Athanasius Kircher, wrote the first grammar and vocabulary of Coptic, the language of Christian Egypt."

Explanation:

For any information to be deemed a fact, it must be proven, verified information. A fact is something that is accepted to be true and can be used as evidence.

In the given excerpt, the sentence that contains a fact is "A German priest of the 1600s, Athanasius Kircher, wrote the first grammar and vocabulary of Coptic, the language of Christian Egypt." This sentence contains a known and verified fact about the first Coptic grammar and vocabulary.