Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Scripts of Silk Road Echoes
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Tang-era Buddhist language lost in Xinjiang’s oasis
- 2. Dualistic religious script blending Aramaic and others
- 3. Ancestor of many Indian scripts spread along Silk Road
- 4. A dialect once used by traders near Kashgar (archaic transcription)
- 5. Rare script name hidden in Old Turkic inscriptions (anagram of ‘BYRTAHS’)
- 7. Trade city script linking Roman and Silk Road epigraphy
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- 6. Italic-derived script that traveled far west, then vanished
- 8. Extinct Indo-European tongue unearthed in Tarim mummies
- 9. Dead liturgical dialect documented on desert papyri
- 10. Script once flourishing, transformed by Mongol and Islamic waves
- 11. Merchant lingua franca encoded in enigmatic Sassanid texts
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