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Mysteries of Ancient Lost Scripts
Explore the enigmatic world of vanished languages and forgotten writing systems through this crossword focused on lost languages and scripts.
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  • 1. Also known as Proto-Elamite, an ancient undeciphered script
  • 2. Ancient script used by Berber cultures in North Africa
  • 3. The back side of a manuscript or page, often with lost scripts
  • 4. Ancient Semitic alphabet considered the ancestor of many modern scripts
  • 7. Term sometimes used in linguistic circles to denote lost dialects
  • 9. Ancient script variant linked to lost Mediterranean languages
  • 10. Historical Turkish language using Arabic script
  • 11. Bronze Age Greek culture that used Linear B
  • 13. Ancient Anatolian language deciphered via cuneiform tablets
  • 14. Ancient Mesoamerican civilization, potentially linked to early scripts
  • 15. Refers to certain small-statured indigenous groups, not a language but historical context
  • 17. Bronze Age script used by the Minoans
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  • 5. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
  • 6. Ancient Semitic script precursor to Arabic script
  • 8. One of the earliest writing systems, used in ancient Mesopotamia
  • 12. Something written in a mysterious or hidden way
  • 16. Describing scripts carved on tablets, like cuneiform
  • 18. Ancient Semitic language found in Syrian city archives
  • 19. Extinct East Germanic language once used by the Goths
  • 20. Undeciphered script from Bronze Age South Asia

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