A crossword exploring extinct languages, ancient writing systems, and the mysteries of lost communication.
Ancient Scripts and Vanished Tongues
Explore the fascinating world of extinct and lost languages through this crossword puzzle highlighting historical scripts, linguistics, and language mysteries.
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- 1. Handwritten document, often containing ancient texts
- 2. To decode or interpret unknown writing
- 4. Stylized symbol in writing systems like Maya
- 6. Art of clear and expressive speech, often lost orally
- 9. Ancient Indian scholar with texts largely untranslated
- 11. Cursive Egyptian script derived from hieroglyphs
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- 3. Sumerian sign often translated as 'god' or 'deity'
- 5. Two ancient scripts, A and B, from Crete
- 7. Study of ancient handwriting
- 8. Ancient Mesopotamian wedge-shaped writing
- 10. Study of ancient inscriptions
- 12. Ancient alphabet used by Germanic peoples
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