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Cryptic Glyphs of Forgotten Scripts
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Wedge-shaped impressions marking the dawn of written communication
  • 2. Ancient Semitic script found in Syrian oasis, a cryptic testament
  • 3. Obscure character encoding akin to EBCDIC, but used in ancient text transmission
  • 5. Philosopher whose cryptic textual fragments challenge classical philology
  • 8. Prehistoric culture linked to undeciphered proto-writing artifacts
  • 10. Stone that unlocked a long-dead tongue’s enigma
  • 11. Ancient Egyptian cursive script next to hieroglyphs and hieratic
  • 12. Bronze Age script whose decipherment eluded scholars for centuries
Down
  • 4. Linguistic element denoting derived forms, crucial in lost language morphology
  • 6. Relating to symbolic carvings that encode forgotten dialects
  • 7. Enigmatic Easter Island script defying final translation
  • 9. Obscure textual variant encountered in Gnostic codices
  • 13. Neolithic monolith inscriptions hypothesized as earliest linguistic codes

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