Explore the mysteries of extinct languages and ancient writing systems in this captivating crossword puzzle about lost languages and scripts.
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
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- 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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