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Cryptic Scripts of Silk Road Relics
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Merchant language that bridged East and West, vanished in time
  • 2. Descriptive term for ancient letter-writing languages of merchants
  • 3. Dualistic faith script scattered through desert ruins
  • 6. Hypothetical dialect related to early Silk Road inscriptions
  • 7. Saka dialect of ancient Buddhist texts along the Silk Route
  • 11. Rarely referenced lost tongue from Central Asian oases
  • 15. Obscure language family with roots near ancient Urumqi
Down
  • 4. Ancient Iranian tongue marking the crossroads of empire
  • 5. Brahmi’s shadow script crossing the western Indian frontiers
  • 8. Study of inscribed animal bones revealing lost scripts
  • 9. Extinct Indo-European tongue found in desert manuscripts
  • 10. Dialect tied to a forgotten Silk Road cultural hub
  • 12. Lost Sino-Tibetan script of a vanished western empire
  • 13. Classical liturgical language lending influence to Silk cultures
  • 14. Dynasty whose language headers cryptic coins and seals

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