Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Esoteric Roots of Ancient Scripts
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Sign conveying an idea rather than phonetic sound
- 2. Symbol standing for a whole word, not just a sound
- 3. Inscribed stones or cryptic images, carved deeply
- 4. Mythical source of confused tongues and language spread
- 6. Epoch where earliest symbolic markings took form
- 8. Semitic traders who forged alphabetic paths by the sea
- 12. Rules ordering words, cryptic in ancient grammar
Down
- 5. Pertaining to partially syllabic writing systems
- 7. Tracing a word’s genetic heritage over time
- 9. Simplified script priests secretly wrote on papyrus
- 10. Mystical Northern alphabet carved in stone or wood
- 11. Study of meaning beneath linguistic surfaces
- 13. Wedge-shaped script from ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets
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