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Mysteries of Ancient Forgotten Scripts
Explore the enigmatic world of lost languages and ancient scripts that have confounded historians and linguists alike.
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  • 2. One of the earliest systems of writing, developed by Sumerians
  • 3. Undeciphered script of Easter Island
  • 4. Ancient Egyptian script derived from hieratic
  • 5. Late stage of Egyptian language using Greek alphabet
  • 6. Location of inscriptions in ancient Javanese script
  • 8. Mysterious illustrated medieval manuscript in an unknown script
  • 10. Ancient script used in Crete, still partly undeciphered
  • 11. Hypothetical language isolate thought to have existed in Siberia
  • 13. Alphabet used by Germanic tribes, some runes have uncertain meaning
  • 14. Ancient Mesoamerican culture potentially linked to early writing
  • 15. Language of many early Buddhist scriptures
  • 17. Hypothetical lost language from the ancient Near East
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  • 1. Culture associated with the earliest form of Greek writing
  • 7. Person who studies languages, including lost and ancient ones
  • 9. Civilization famous for an undeciphered script on seals
  • 12. Ancient Egyptian cursive writing
  • 16. Script used for writing Mycenaean Greek, deciphered in 1950s
  • 18. Humanist scholar known for studying ancient texts
  • 19. Early angular form of the Arabic script
  • 20. Ivory Coast script created by King Njoya in the late 19th century

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