Question

imagine a historian is trying to decode an old manuscript that describe the achievement of a king describe any two challenges that he might face when decoding that information​

Answer 1

Answer :

While decoding a manuscript the historian faces several challenges :

• There were no printing presses those days so scribes were copying  manuscripts by hand. While copying scribes small changes were introduced - a word, a sentence etc.
• These small differences grew over centuries of copying until manuscripts of the same text became substantially difference from the original one.
• As a result historians have to read different  manuscripts of the same text to guess what the author had originally written.

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Extra information :-

Manuscript : Manuscripts are hand written records from the past. They are usually written in Palm leaves, paper, bark etc.

Historians : A person who studies and writes about the past is known as Historians.

Scribes : A Scribe is a person who was used to copy Manuscripts. He was used before the invention of printing.