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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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Across
- 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
Down
- 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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