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Cryptic Codices and Lost Scripts is a hard crossword puzzle with 9 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Cryptic Codices and Lost Scripts
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- 1. Angular letters carved in stone or wood by Germanic tribes
- 2. Composite term referencing early symbolic markings akin to proto-writing in Eurasia
- 4. Wedge-shaped tokens carved by ancient scribes on clay tablets
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- 3. Late Egyptian script used for daily writing, less formal than hieratic
- 5. Script still undeciphered from the Bronze Age civilization on the subcontinent
- 6. Reference to a classification system, here a misdirect for linear ancient scripts
- 7. Anagram of ‘stroles’ hinting towards ancient text carriers made from ostrich eggshells
- 8. Abbreviated root of a term describing study of ancient handwriting (intentionally partial for challenge)
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