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Cryptic Scripts of Ancient Trade Links
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Egyptian priestly shorthand, ledger of Nile commerce
  • 2. Silk Road scribes’ tongue, blending Iranian roots and influence
  • 3. Turkic-derived script, key in Central Asian mercantile exchange
  • 4. Bronze Age Aegean signs, vanished amid trade collapse
  • 5. Prakrit-derived script, caravan of silk and spices’ scribe
  • 9. Obscure Sino-Tibetan script from a forgotten caravan empire
  • 12. Marks in Periplus lost to time, essential for meaning's flow
  • 14. Egyptian Nubian script, cryptic hieroglyphs of trade hubs
  • 15. Trade route whisperer from Arabian Peninsula's shadowed past
  • 17. Cameroonian script for commerce, eclipsed by colonial tongues
Down
  • 6. Hellenistic lingua franca shaping Black Sea merchant texts
  • 7. Alphabet ancestor of merchants sailing Mediterranean waves
  • 8. Mesopotamian wedge script deciphered from trade tablets
  • 10. Lingua franca spanning empires, script of caravan whispers
  • 11. Mysterious script on Indus seals, undeciphered merchant code
  • 13. Ancient Mesoamerican language, silent witness to obsidian trade
  • 16. Script of Roman Peninsula, cryptic inscriptions on trade wares
  • 18. Hypothetical merchant code, lost to proto-trade linguistics

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