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Cryptic Scripts and Ancient Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Indus Valley inscribed artifacts, still untranslated mysteries
  • 2. Ancient script thought to precede Phoenician alphabet
  • 3. Script appearing literate but lacking consistent linguistic structure
  • 4. Ancient Anatolian script supplanted by Greek alphabet
  • 5. Pre-Greek script cracked by Alice Kober and Michael Ventris
  • 8. Cipher system masking messages in early modern text
  • 11. Undeciphered glyphs inscribed on Easter Island tablets
  • 13. Ancient Indo-Aryan language preserving archaic ritual hymns
  • 16. Sudanese script still partially undeciphered, linked to kingdom near Nile
  • 19. Language associated with a legendary Sumerian city-state
  • 20. Forgotten script of Himalayan peoples with complex origin
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  • 6. Phonetic feature complicating decipherment of ancient tongues
  • 7. Cameroonian writing system created by a king in early 20th century
  • 9. Branch of extinct languages inscribed in Hittite hieroglyphs
  • 10. French term meaning 'old quarter', hinting at archaic documents
  • 12. Tentatively identified early Mesoamerican writing system
  • 14. Pertaining to mixed alphabets combining divergent scripts
  • 15. Wedge-shaped script carved on clay tablets by Sumerians
  • 17. Desert script that influenced later Arabic calligraphy
  • 18. Late Egyptian script used mainly for administrative texts
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