Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Forgotten Scripts and Renaissance Tongues
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Semitic alphabet precursor to Greek and Latin scripts
- 2. North African language related to Phoenician
- 5. Ancient Anatolian language sometimes studied by Renaissance scholars
- 6. Ancient Italian language mysterious even in Renaissance times
- 8. Undeciphered script from Easter Island's mysterious past
- 9. Egyptian script used for everyday writing in later periods
- 11. Lingua franca of the Near East during early history
- 12. Mycenaean Greek script undeciphered until 20th century
Down
- 3. Simplified Egyptian script used alongside hieroglyphs
- 4. Alphabet of Germanic tribes, fading by Renaissance era
- 7. Ancient Semitic language found in Syrian city archives
- 10. Old Slavic alphabet rediscovered in medieval manuscripts
- 13. Cuneiform script from a lost Syrian city, studied in Renaissance
- 14. Ancient Mesoamerican language with a complex hieroglyphic system
- 15. Late Egyptian language written in Greek letters
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