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Mysteries of Ancient Forgotten Alphabets
Explore the enigmatic world of lost languages and extinct scripts through this engaging crossword puzzle featuring historic alphabets, ancient civilizations, and cryptic writings.
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  • 1. An extinct Cushitic language from East Africa
  • 2. Alphabetic script that influenced Greek and Latin alphabets
  • 4. One of the earliest known writing systems from Mesopotamia
  • 5. Ancient Egyptian script used in everyday writing
  • 7. Script associated with an ancient civilization in the Indian subcontinent
  • 8. Script used by the Nabataeans, ancestors of Arabic script
  • 9. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
  • 12. Script used by the Mycenaeans, still partly undeciphered
  • 15. Alphabet derived from Phoenician, basis for many Western scripts
  • 17. Ancient Italic language written in the Oscan alphabet
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  • 3. Ancient Moabite stone inscription, one of the oldest Semitic texts
  • 6. Ancient Indo-Aryan language used in Indian sacred texts
  • 10. Old Slavic script created by Saints Cyril and Methodius
  • 11. An undeciphered Bronze Age Aegean script
  • 13. Ancient language and script from southwestern Iran
  • 14. Japanese syllabary derived from cursive man'yōgana
  • 16. Script created for the Somali language in the 20th century
  • 18. Ancient alphabets used in Germanic languages

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