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Enigmatic Scripts of Forgotten Tongues
Explore the mysterious and ancient lost languages that baffle historians and linguists alike through this cryptic crossword.
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  • 1. Rock carvings that preserve ancient symbolic communication
  • 2. Unknown script from Easter Island
  • 4. Cameroonian script created by a king in the early 20th century
  • 5. Famous undeciphered manuscript named after a rare book dealer
  • 6. Hypothetical lost language script reconstituted from marginalia
  • 8. Early form of Greek written in Linear B
  • 12. Ancient Mesoamerican civilization with undeciphered symbols
  • 13. Civilization with an undeciphered script found in South Asia
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  • 3. Symbols representing ideas rather than sounds or words
  • 7. Minoan script still only partially deciphered
  • 9. Language used by the Western Xia dynasty, script still partially understood
  • 10. One of the earliest known writing systems, used in ancient Mesopotamia
  • 11. Ancient Egyptian script used for everyday writing

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