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Cryptic Scripts of Cartographic Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Detailed regional description language, now nearly extinct
- 2. Ancient map draft revealing primordial geographic impressions
- 3. Water-related inscriptions found in lost aquatic cartographies
- 4. Navigational path noted in vanished maritime tongue
- 5. Disused language of geographical description, tongue of the terrain
- 10. Medieval world maps, often linguistically obscured or cryptic
- 11. Ancient term for earth’s depiction, a state or condition
- 12. Spherical maps once detailed in no longer spoken dialects
- 14. Symbolic motif occasionally used in ancient coastal mapping lexica
Down
- 6. Study of Earth's elevations, once encoded in lost scripts
- 7. Threefold map panel, often inscribed in archaic glyphs
- 8. Encircled emblem holding names or titles in forgotten map scripts
- 9. Referring to maps from Asia Minor's famed ancient library
- 13. Pertaining to geographer whose maps encoded archaic place names
- 15. Diagrammer of the cosmos, whose lexicon has faded away
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