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Cryptic Scripts of Lost Empires
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Prehistoric script predecessor to Elamite inscriptions
  • 2. Author associated with cryptographic hypotheses on ancient alphabets
  • 4. Knotted cords used by Andean civilizations as complex data systems
  • 5. Cipher-like glyphs from an enigmatic Mesoamerican culture
  • 7. Script of a vanished Aegean civilization, still partly undeciphered
  • 11. Lines in Peruvian desert possibly a vast encoded geoglyph
  • 15. Iconic statues that cryptographers speculate encoded the Easter Island legacy
Down
  • 3. Scandinavian inscribed stones, often believed to be mystical codes
  • 6. Expert who attempts to decode extinct civilizations’ languages
  • 8. Key to unlocking Egyptian hieroglyphs with trilingual text
  • 9. Ancient script name derived from ‘bamboo slips’ used by a forgotten dynasty
  • 10. Name linked to controversial lost civilization scripts and artifacts
  • 12. Hypothetical cell named for rumored ancient communication decoding
  • 13. Wedge-shaped writing essential to Mesopotamian civilization bureaucracy
  • 14. Stylized script rumored to symbolize forgotten regal decrees

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