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Cryptic Scripts and Lost Inscriptions
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Ancient Egyptian writing substrate made from a water plant
  • 2. Books printed before 1501, marking early movable type use
  • 3. High-quality parchment made from calfskin for manuscript writing
  • 4. Portable writing case in antiquity for stylus and wax tablets
  • 6. Collection of literary extracts, sometimes assembled from ancient texts
  • 9. Refers to Scotland, site of ancient ogham script carvings
  • 13. Carved or painted symbolic figures often found on monuments
  • 14. Inscription featuring eight languages or writing systems
  • 15. Ancient specialist charged with recording texts and documents
  • 19. Stone slab bearing inscriptions or carvings commemorating events
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  • 5. Hard stone sometimes used to engrave texts in antiquity
  • 7. Reused manuscript parchment erased to reveal earlier text
  • 8. Undeciphered script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization
  • 10. Written character representing a word rather than a sound
  • 11. Study of inscriptions as writings on durable materials
  • 12. Wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets from Mesopotamia
  • 16. Imaginary ancient writing technique, a tricky red herring (for wordplay)
  • 17. Engraving tool essential for incising ancient inscriptions
  • 18. Single large upright stone often inscribed for historical record
  • 20. Pointed instrument used to inscribe wax tablet texts

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