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Esoteric Scripts Along the Silk Road
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Extinct Indo-European tongue preserved in Tarim mummies’ manuscripts
- 5. False lead: name one might confuse with an African script, but beware — not Silk Road related
- 7. Ancient Turkic alphabet carved on steles, predating Uyghur script
Down
- 2. Merchant lingua franca's script fading along Central Asian bazaars
- 3. Deciphered Brahmi rival once etched on northwest Indian trade scrolls
- 4. Old Turkic script transformed by Manichaean and Buddhist scribes
- 6. Late Middle Persian dialect inscribed on Silk Road coinage
- 8. Middle Iranian script bridging Aramaic influence and Persian royal decrees
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