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Cryptic Scripts of Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Sacred carvings combining images and phonetics, locked by Rosetta
  • 2. Syllabary script that keeps its Minoan mystery on Crete’s tablets
  • 3. Wedge-shaped script carved into clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia
  • 4. Plant compounds named after a Pyrenean script, hinting at secret writings
  • 5. Pertaining to inscriptions, often used to study undeciphered ancient texts
  • 7. Mystical alphabets used by ancient Germanic tribes, carved in stone
Down
  • 6. Study of ancient handwriting essential for unraveling lost scripts
  • 8. A language so lost, it no longer breathes in living voices
  • 9. What has eluded scholars for many dead languages until breakthrough

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