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Ancient Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
Explore the mysteries of extinct languages and scripts that shaped human history through this crossword puzzle.
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  • 1. Describes scripts written in rows or columns
  • 2. Ancient Indian script progenitor of many modern scripts
  • 4. Ancient Mesopotamian wedge-shaped script
  • 5. Undeciphered script of Easter Island
  • 6. Script used by ancient Arab people around Petra
  • 8. Ancient Neolithic site with early symbols
  • 11. Symbols carved or inscribed in ancient scripts
  • 12. Ancient Egyptian script used for daily purposes
  • 15. Extinct language once spoken in Anatolia
  • 17. Sumerian city associated with early writing systems
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  • 3. Person who copies manuscripts or inscriptions
  • 7. Mark used to void or cross out text in manuscripts
  • 9. A system of writing or symbols
  • 10. Term linked to the small-statured peoples associated with lost languages
  • 13. Early Greek script known from clay tablets
  • 14. Mysterious undeciphered manuscript named after a bookseller
  • 16. Ancient language of southwest Iran, now extinct
  • 18. Prefix for scripts used in ancient Greece and Crete

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