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Ancient Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
Explore the enigmatic world of vanished languages and scripts through this engaging crossword puzzle.
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  • 1. Relating to ancient Semitic inscriptions sometimes lost
  • 2. Civilization with undeciphered script found on seals
  • 3. Symbolic Egyptian writing system often used on temples
  • 5. Undeciphered script of Easter Island
  • 9. Ancient language of early Indian sacred texts
  • 11. Script used by ancient Arab kingdom around Petra
  • 12. Historic script once a lingua franca in the ancient Near East
  • 17. Ancient lost script or error variant in clues
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  • 4. Describes scripts written in parallel marks or strokes
  • 6. Artifact crucial for deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • 7. Region linked to ancient Quipu record-keeping system
  • 8. One of the earliest writing systems using wedge-shaped marks
  • 10. Ancient Incan knotted string recording method
  • 13. Ancient script from the Syrian city of Palmyra
  • 14. Ancient Mesoamerican culture with early unknown glyphs
  • 15. Disk with mysterious symbols found on Crete
  • 16. Ancient script used by Mycenaeans before Greek alphabet
  • 18. Pertaining to a speech sound used in many ancient languages
  • 19. Egyptian script derived from northern hieratic writing

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