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Cryptic Scripts of Lost Civilizations
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Egyptian script more common than hieroglyphs, less formal
  • 3. Ancient Iranian script seen on tragic tablets
  • 4. Easter Island's undeciphered glyph lattice mystery
  • 5. Early medieval tree-based alphabet inscribed along stone edges
  • 11. Secret cylinder device named for hidden alphabets
  • 13. Phonetic rebus principle used in early alphabet design
  • 14. Wedge-shaped marks long faded from Mesopotamian tablets
  • 16. Semi-syllabic puzzle of prehistoric Spain and southern France
  • 17. Ciphered script once used by a forgotten desert city-state
  • 18. Cryptic runic-like marks named for a once-rich trading port
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  • 2. Hypothetical script speculated for prehistoric transcriptions
  • 6. Complex glyphic system recording calendrical and royal lore
  • 7. Abjad of Sindh, fading into obscurity with scripts altered
  • 8. Ancestor alphabet born on Mediterranean shores, root of many
  • 9. Cameroon's regal syllabary carved by a king’s design
  • 10. Inscribed language of ancient Iberian Peninsula twilight
  • 12. Old Slavic letters, obscure precursor to Cyrillic
  • 15. Simplified priestly hand-script coexisting with hieroglyphs
  • 19. Mycenaean script ineffable in its clay tablet utterance
  • 20. Fabled alphabet hinted at in obscure ancient texts
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