Explore the mysteries of extinct languages and ancient writing systems in this captivating crossword puzzle about lost languages and scripts.
Ancient Scripts and Vanished Tongues
Explore the mysteries of lost languages and forgotten writing systems through this challenging crossword puzzle.
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Across
- 1. Mysterious medieval manuscript written in an unknown language
- 2. Greek civilization whose script Linear B was deciphered in the 20th century
- 5. Referring to ancient bardic Gaelic poems and scripts once thought lost
- 8. Symbolic biblical motif related to confounding languages
- 9. Island where ancient Linear A script was found
- 10. Ancient Egyptian script used for everyday writing
- 14. Lost Australian Aboriginal language group or people
Down
- 3. The study and interpretation of inscriptions
- 4. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
- 6. One of the earliest known writing systems using wedge-shaped marks
- 7. Desert kingdom known for its lost script precursor to Arabic
- 11. Script used by Mycenaean Greeks, cracked by Michael Ventris
- 12. Extinct language with its own unique alphabet used by an East Germanic tribe
- 13. Deliberate misspelling of Linear A to test attentiveness
- 15. Ancient undeciphered script from the subcontinent's bronze age civilization
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