Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Enigmatic Glyphs and Script Decipherments
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Small seals or stamps used to authenticate ancient documents
- 2. Manuscript scraped off and reused, hiding earlier writing
- 4. Mysterious inscribed stone whose meaning remains elusive
- 6. Wedge-shaped script carving ancient Mesopotamian clay
- 7. Text appearing in two languages, key to script solving
- 9. Late Egyptian script, common and cursive, not sacred
- 13. Expert who deciphers or critiques ancient manuscript errors
Down
- 3. Encrypted message revealing secrets in coded form
- 5. Semitic alphabet ancestor, progenitor of most modern scripts
- 8. Study of inscriptions often hidden in stone or metal
- 10. Priestly shorthand of Egyptian hieroglyphs, simplified form
- 11. Symbol representing a whole word, not phonetic components
- 12. Using symbols named by initial sounds—ancient mnemonic device
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