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Ancient Scripts and Forgotten Languages
A crossword exploring obscure and lost languages and writing systems from history.
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  • 1. Ancient language of southwestern Iran, now extinct
  • 2. One of the earliest known writing systems using wedge shapes
  • 3. Ancient Aegean script preceding the Greek alphabet
  • 5. Greek civilization associated with Linear B script
  • 6. Ancient Egyptian script derived from hieratic writing
  • 7. Monuments often inscribed with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • 8. Expert who studies languages, especially ancient ones
  • 10. Script from the Bronze Age civilization in South Asia, undeciphered
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  • 4. Ancient Anatolian language written in cuneiform script
  • 9. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
  • 11. Pictographic script of the Naxi people in China

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