Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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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