A crossword exploring extinct languages, ancient writing systems, and the mysteries of lost communication.
Cryptic Scripts of Ancient Tongues
Explore the mysterious vanished languages and their unique writing systems through this challenging crossword puzzle.
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Across
- 1. NOT related - ignore to maintain theme
- 2. Name of a mysterious illustrated manuscript language
- 3. Individual symbol in an ancient script
- 4. One of the earliest writing systems from Mesopotamia
- 5. Prefix describing some ancient scripts like A and B
- 8. Script where each symbol represents a syllable
- 12. Vocabulary of a language
- 15. Medieval Irish learned class of poets and judges
- 16. Later Egyptian script used for everyday writing
Down
- 6. Study of ancient handwriting and scripts
- 7. What makes some ancient texts undecipherable
- 9. Ancient language of India, foundational for many Indo-Aryan languages
- 10. Study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing
- 11. Mycenaean Greek script, still undeciphered fully
- 13. Alphabet used by ancient Germanic peoples
- 14. Naming letters by words that begin with those sounds
- 17. Extinct East Germanic language once used by a biblical translator
- 18. Simplified cursive script derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs
- 19. Describes languages from long ago
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