Michaela Fleming -- The Experiment of Psammetichos (paper 2 rewrite) This is a good improvement over the original version. I think you have addressed the comments I had very successfully. There are still a few small glitches or typos in your writing though. For instance, in the paragraph after the opening: In his description of Psammetichos’ experiment to discover which humans existed before the Egyptians, Herodotus describes not only a linguistic and cultural border *in his account,* -- don't need this because you already have "In his description" at the start of the sentence but also a physical boundary. Because the Egyptians believed that they were the earliest humans, they needed to cross a cultural and linguistic border to discover what humans existed before them. After hearing what the two infants cried out as their first words, the word “bekos” challenged Psammetichos to discover what language the children were speaking *of* -- don't need this either. You could just say "what language the children were speaking. There are a number of similar things throughout the paper that could be cleaned up a bit. Content: A Mechanics: A-