Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Scripts and Lost Tongues
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Manuscript page reused after original text was erased
- 2. Fine parchment made from animal skin used in old manuscripts
- 4. Characters used in early Germanic alphabets, often mysterious
- 6. Ancient Semitic script considered one of the first alphabets
- 11. Refers to an extinct language spoken by nomads of the Eurasian steppes
- 13. An extinct East Germanic language known from biblical texts
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- 3. Language with script once used for some medieval cipher texts
- 5. A type of ancient undeciphered script (fictional for puzzle variety)
- 7. Mythical city symbolic of linguistic confusion and variety
- 8. Formal writing of Ancient Egypt using pictorial signs
- 9. Writing system of ancient Mesopotamia using wedge-shaped marks
- 10. Objects inscribed with symbols believed to have magical power
- 12. Able to read and write, uncommon status in ancient times
- 14. Romance language once widely spoken in Southern France, now rare
- 15. Ancient carved or inscribed characters often found on monuments
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