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Forgotten Tongues and Ancient Scripts
Explore the enigmatic world of lost languages and forgotten writing systems in this challenging crossword puzzle.
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Across
  • 1. Typical Egyptian pictorial writing system
  • 2. Language and script foundational to Western civilization
  • 3. Undeciphered script from the ancient South Asian civilization
  • 5. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
  • 10. Wedge-shaped ancient writing system of Mesopotamia
  • 12. Predecessor script to the Arabic alphabet
  • 14. Ancient Egyptian script used for daily purposes
  • 17. Minoan script that remains partially deciphered
Down
  • 4. Set of historic writing systems used across Asia (two words combined)
  • 6. Form of runic script used by ancient Scandinavian people
  • 7. Ancient script used by Uralic peoples in Russia
  • 8. Script descended from the Phoenician alphabet
  • 9. Name of a mysterious codex with unknown language and script
  • 11. Semitic alphabet considered the ancestor of many modern scripts
  • 13. Sudanese script still only partly deciphered
  • 15. Extinct script and language from Western Xia kingdom
  • 16. Ancient script used by the Mycenaeans before Linear C

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