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Cryptic Codes of Lost Civilizations
Explore the fascinating world of extinct languages and ancient scripts through this crossword puzzle featuring lost alphabets, forgotten dialects, and mysterious writing systems.
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Across
  • 1. Ancient Anatolian language written in cuneiform
  • 2. Symbols forming elements of ancient pictographic writing
  • 3. Ancient script used on the Iberian Peninsula before Latin
  • 4. Obscure character encoding once used by IBM mainframes
  • 6. Undeciphered glyphs found on Easter Island tablets
  • 8. Simplified Egyptian cursive script derived from hieroglyphs
  • 11. Baybayin is an ancient Filipino script sometimes found on this metal tool
  • 13. Term for a script that is no longer understood or deciphered
  • 14. Lost language of the Kushite kingdom in ancient Sudan
  • 16. Egyptian script used for everyday purposes, after hieratic
Down
  • 5. Location where the mysterious Rongorongo tablets were found
  • 7. Script used by the Tuareg people of the Sahara desert
  • 9. Semitic alphabet that influenced Greek and Latin scripts
  • 10. Ancient civilization that used Akkadian written in cuneiform
  • 12. One of the earliest systems of writing, developed by Sumerians
  • 15. Common typo or misspelling often confused for Linear A
  • 17. An extinct language with no remaining native speakers
  • 18. Ancient script used by Mycenaeans before the Greek alphabet
  • 19. Mesoamerican culture speculated to have used early writing systems

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