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Decoding Ancient Lost Scripts
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
  • 1. To successfully interpret a forgotten script
  • 2. Process of translating coded or lost text
  • 3. Lost Central American script deciphered in the 20th century
  • 5. Pictorial characters used in ancient Egyptian writing
  • 6. Ancient wedge-shaped writing of Mesopotamia
  • 7. Type of consonant sound found in many ancient languages
  • 10. To analyze or break down language components
  • 11. Invented term; do not use
  • 15. Removing writing often seen in damaged ancient tablets
Down
  • 4. Consonant-only script type common in Semitic languages
  • 8. To write or carve words onto a surface
  • 9. Undeciphered script of Easter Island
  • 12. Prefix for two undeciphered Aegean scripts, A and B
  • 13. Prefix meaning 'earliest form,' as in early language stages
  • 14. Stone key that helped decode Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • 16. Inscription engraved on stone or metal
  • 17. Ancient Egyptian predynastic culture with proto-writing
  • 18. Invented term; do not use
  • 19. Biblical city symbolizing language confusion

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