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Ancient Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
Explore the mysterious world of lost languages and extinct writing systems through this challenging crossword puzzle.
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  • 1. Refers to snake-related symbols or scripts in ancient cultures
  • 3. Site of Roman tablets revealing lost vernacular Latin
  • 4. Egyptian script used for daily purposes after hieratic
  • 5. Extinct Semitic language from ancient Syria
  • 8. Simplified Egyptian script used for religious texts
  • 10. Earliest known writing system developed by Sumerians
  • 12. Mycenaean Greek script predecessor to the Greek alphabet
  • 13. Unknown script used on Crete before Linear B
  • 15. Symbols used in ancient writing systems like Mayan and Egyptian
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  • 2. Ancient language of Carthage, derived from Phoenician
  • 6. Undeciphered script of Easter Island
  • 7. Semitic alphabet ancestor of most modern alphabets
  • 9. Handwritten document preserving ancient text
  • 11. Language isolated to the pre-Roman inhabitants of Sardinia
  • 14. Ancient script of the Berber peoples in North Africa
  • 16. Mesoamerican civilization known for early writing symbols

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