Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Cryptic Scripts of Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Ancient Indian script known for its complex character shapes
- 2. Single graphic symbol used in ancient writing or inscriptions
- 4. Undeciphered glyphic script from Easter Island wooden tablets
- 6. Wedge-shaped impressions etched on clay tablets in Mesopotamia
- 7. Priestly Egyptian shorthand derived from sacred hieroglyphics
- 8. Scrolls from Hebrew scripture with ancient manuscript tradition
- 9. Bronze Age Aegean script deciphered using knowledge of Greek
- 14. Ancient Southeast Asian script associated with Angkor civilization
Down
- 3. Hypothetical Reconstruction of an Old Writing System for ancient Urdu
- 5. Script linked to pre-Columbian indigenous cultures of Central America
- 10. Simplified Egyptian script, less sacred than hieroglyphics
- 11. Ancient Indo-Aryan texts written in an archaic form of Sanskrit
- 12. Systems of divinatory scripts, often cryptic and symbolic
- 13. Tall ancient monument often inscribed with hieroglyphic records
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