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Cryptic Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Pre-Roman script found on Iberian Peninsula ceramics, undeciphered
  • 3. Ancient glyphs used in ceremonial inscription, unknown language
  • 4. Mysterious Easter Island script defying all modern attempts at translation
  • 7. Ancient Near Eastern language extinct since Bronze Age
  • 8. Hurrian-influenced language evident in ancient Hittite treaties
  • 10. Medieval Mesoamerican scribe’s lost symbolic codes
  • 14. Script and language of ancient Nubian kingdom, still partly indeciphered
  • 16. Art of carving seals—often key sources for archaic languages and scripts
  • 18. Preclassic Mesoamerican culture whose glyphic language remains cryptic
Down
  • 2. Smallest distinctive unit of meaning in historical linguistics
  • 5. Semitic sea traders whose alphabet influenced modern scripts
  • 6. Study of ancient inscriptions critical to decoding lost languages
  • 9. Bronze Age script still only partially deciphered on Aegean clay
  • 11. Semitic lingua franca of Mesopotamia, extinct but well documented
  • 12. Lost Iranian language once used in southwestern Persia's inscriptions
  • 13. Wedge-shaped ancient Mesopotamian script now obsolete
  • 15. A cryptic play: describes a script without any visible ink or sign
  • 17. Script developed from Glagolitic by Byzantine monks to write Slavic tongues
  • 19. System of symbols representing phonemes, first fully realized in Phoenician
  • 20. Carthaginian tongue extinguished after Roman conquest

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