Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Arcane Scripts and Enigmatic Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. The art of studying ancient handwriting styles
- 2. Scientific study analyzing structure of languages
- 4. Wedge-shaped script from ancient Mesopotamia's dawn
- 5. Pertaining to symbolic carved characters or signs
- 6. City famed for papyrus scraps preserving lost texts
- 8. Late Egyptian script simplifying hieroglyphic forms
- 9. Stone key unlocking Egyptian hieroglyphs’ code
- 10. To solve the cryptic script's veiled message
Down
- 3. Enigmatic in meaning, like lost language riddles
- 7. To overinterpret or excessively decode ancient scripts
- 11. Script of desert traders, predecessor to Arabic script
- 12. Study of inscriptions carved in antiquity
- 13. Ancient Egyptian cursive script, priestly shorthand
- 14. Body of knowledge shaping ancient linguistic theory
- 15. Bronze Age syllabary decoded by Michael Ventris
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