Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Scripts of Lost Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Study of ancient inscriptions, essential for unmasking lost scripts
- 2. Wedge-shaped impressions inscribed on clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia
- 3. Egyptian script evolving from hieratic to daily handwritten form
- 4. Disc bearing enigmatic spiral signs, site of an undeciphered Cretan language
- 5. Stone enabling the polyglot key to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
- 9. Mycenaean script not found in Aegean scripts, but deciphered by science
Down
- 6. Primitive Irish alphabet etched in stone, characterized by linear strokes
- 7. Ancient script from Gandhara region, written right-to-left on birch bark
- 8. Art of carving tiny inscriptions or symbols, useful in coding antiquity
- 10. Renaissance scholar who contributed to cryptological decipherment hints, influencing lost texts
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