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Forgotten Scripts and Ancient Tongues
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
  • 1. Study of inscriptions or engraved texts
  • 2. Final phase of the ancient Egyptian language written in Greek letters
  • 3. Ancient Semitic language ancestor of many alphabets
  • 4. Relating to inscriptions carved on durable materials
  • 6. Sumerian city whose texts helped decode ancient languages
  • 8. Extinct Indo-European language once spoken in Central Asia
  • 14. Greek archaeological site linked to Linear B tablets
  • 16. Ancient Mesoamerican civilization with an undeciphered script
  • 20. Type of ancient script, with versions A and B from the Aegean
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  • 5. Scripts used in ancient Iberian Peninsula before Latin
  • 7. Proto-writing system from Neolithic Anatolia
  • 9. Wedge-shaped script used in ancient Mesopotamia
  • 10. Isolate language with debated ancient roots in Pakistan
  • 11. Ancient Anatolian language written in cuneiform
  • 12. Valley Civilization’s still undeciphered script
  • 13. Ancient Sudanese script still not fully understood
  • 15. East Germanic tribe language preserved in Bible translations
  • 17. General term relating to early or lost languages
  • 18. Alphabet used by ancient Germanic peoples
  • 19. East Germanic people whose language has no surviving texts

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