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Ancient Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
A crossword exploring rare, lost languages and ancient writing systems that shaped human history.
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  • 1. Egyptian script used after hieratic, before Coptic
  • 2. Mycenaean script deciphered in the 20th century
  • 3. Ancient Middle Eastern script influencing Arabic writing
  • 8. Ancient Italian language with undeciphered origins
  • 10. Mysterious illustrated manuscript in undeciphered script
  • 12. Alphabet used by Germanic peoples before Latin script
  • 13. Extinct script used by an empire in northwestern China
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  • 4. Early medieval Irish alphabet inscribed on stones
  • 5. Precursor to cuneiform script used in ancient Mesopotamia
  • 6. Simplified Egyptian script derived from hieroglyphs
  • 7. One of the earliest writing systems invented by Sumerians
  • 9. Cuneiform alphabet from ancient Syrian city Ugarit
  • 11. Disk with unknown script discovered in Crete
  • 14. Undeciphered Minoan script preceding Linear B
  • 15. Ancient script from the Indus Valley civilization
  • 16. Symbols used in ancient scripts like Mayan and Egyptian

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