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Cryptic Enigmas of Extinct Scripts
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  • 1. Minoan successor script undeciphered to this day
  • 2. Rarely found supplementary text form in ancient Theban inscriptions
  • 5. Extinct East Germanic language, documented sparsely by Roman sources
  • 7. Ancient language of the kingdom near Lake Van, lost to time
  • 9. Relating to symbols used as clan or kinship markers, often undeciphered
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  • 3. Art of carving seals used to authenticate ancient inscriptions
  • 4. Shorthand script named for its inventor, less known phonetic system
  • 6. Hypothetical Thracian dialect linked to lost Balkan scripts
  • 8. Wedge-shaped script once etched on clay tablets
  • 10. Egyptian cursive script between hieratic and Coptic
  • 11. Semitic lingua franca of the Near East, largely supplanted
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