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Cryptic Scripts of Ancient Civilizations
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Wedge-shaped impresses marking earliest known writing form
  • 3. Obscure South Asian script erased by time and conquest
  • 4. Mystifying Easter Island glyphs yet to be decoded
  • 7. Ancient South Arabian script used by incense traders
  • 9. Hypothetical lost script linked to early Mediterranean trade
  • 10. Discipline analyzing symbolic carvings in lost languages
  • 12. Precursor Semitic script bridging Aramaic and Arabic alphabets
  • 14. Study of inscriptions crucial to unlocking forgotten scripts
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  • 2. Simplified Egyptian script bridging hieroglyphs and cursive
  • 5. Science of ancient handwriting, aiding script reconstruction
  • 6. Ethiopic classical script lost to vernacular transition
  • 8. Peculiar lost script hypothesized from southern Mesopotamia
  • 11. Minoan successor script, still partially undeciphered
  • 13. Ancient lost Indic script attested in copper plate inscriptions
  • 15. Logical cuneiform style used by Hittite scribes
  • 16. Classical Indic language often preserved in palimpsests
  • 17. Anatolian language inscribed in a unique alphabetic script
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