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Ancient Forgotten Scripts and Tongues
A crossword exploring lost languages and extinct writing systems from ancient civilizations.
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  • 1. Ancient Mesopotamian wedge-shaped writing system
  • 2. Italy’s pre-Roman language and script, still partly undeciphered
  • 3. Clay or stone piece used to inscribe ancient texts
  • 4. Ancient Middle Eastern script used by early Christian communities
  • 6. Fictional term sometimes used for ancient or lost dragon-related scripts
  • 9. Indigenous scripts and languages of the island with many extinct dialects
  • 11. A carved or inscribed symbol representing words or sounds
  • 14. Tall stone monument often inscribed with ancient texts
  • 16. Hypothetical name for undeciphered South American petroglyph script
  • 18. Early Bronze Age site associated with proto-writing script discovery
Down
  • 5. Classic Mesoamerican script lost to long-term decline
  • 7. Ancient civilization with undeciphered seals and symbols in South Asia
  • 8. Stone that helped decode Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • 10. Mysterious undeciphered script from Easter Island
  • 12. Describes languages or scripts from very old civilizations
  • 13. Mysterious illustrated manuscript with unknown writing system
  • 15. Ancient Anatolian civilization with a now-extinct language
  • 17. Type of ancient script used in the Aegean, including Linear A and B
  • 19. Viking-age runes sometimes linked to lost Nordic scripts
  • 20. Short name for a lost South American language group

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