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Cryptic Scripts of Vanished Alphabets
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Across
- 1. Sacred pictorial script encoding religious secrets
- 2. Aramaic-derived script of an ancient desert city
- 3. Old Slavic cipher devised by Byzantine missionaries
- 4. Mysterious Norse characters carved in stone and wood
- 6. Anatolian alphabet reflecting fragmented coastal kingdoms
- 7. Hellenistic Egyptian shorthand script, deceptively ‘common’
Down
- 5. Ancestor alphabet spreading Semitic consonants westward
- 8. Wedge-shaped script that carved Mesopotamian chronicles
- 9. Primitive Celtic alphabet inscribed along tree edges
- 10. Bronze Age syllabary unlocking Mycenaean tongues
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