Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Cryptic Glyphs of Forgotten Scripts
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Right-to-left script once used along the Silk Road in Gandhara
- 2. Mysterious preclassic Mesoamerican script, still debated among scholars
- 3. Undeciphered script inscribed on Easter Island tablets
- 5. Dialect whose obscure script was once employed in Fujian Buddhist texts
- 6. Mongol imperial script commissioned by Kublai Khan, using Tibetan letters
- 7. Elaborate syllabary of Western Xia dynasty, lost with its empire
Down
- 4. Cipher-like shorthand from Frankish scribes of early medieval Europe
- 8. Aramaic-derived script from ancient Petra, precursor to Arabic
- 9. Ancient script of the Berber tribes, carved in the Sahara sands
- 10. Cameroonian script invented in the early 20th century
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