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Cryptic Scripts of Antiquity Unveiled
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Across
- 1. Northwest Indian script written right-to-left, derived from Aramaic
- 2. Un-deciphered script appearing on seals from South Asia's Bronze Age
- 4. Wedge-shaped impressions on clay, Babylonian bureaucracy's script
- 7. Minoan syllabary still largely undecoded, mostly administrative records
- 8. Carthaginian script descended from Phoenician alphabet
- 10. Shape describing Bronze Age tablets inscribed with early scripts
- 13. Ancient Germanic letters carved often on wood or stone, reputed magical
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- 3. Hieroglyphs and other pictorial characters combined into a term for graphic symbols
- 5. Not a script, but divine scripting's mystical art — trick clue
- 6. Script studied extensively in palaeography, born from Nabatean cursive
- 9. Simplified Egyptian script for priests, less pictorial than its royal counterpart
- 11. Late Egyptian cursive script named for 'popular' usage
- 12. Bronze Age Aegean syllabary deciphered by Ventris
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