A crossword exploring ancient lost languages and undeciphered scripts from history.
Mysteries of Forgotten Ancient Scripts
Explore the enigmatic world of lost languages and obscure writing systems through this challenging crossword puzzle.
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Across
- 1. Art of carving inscriptions or designs on gems
- 2. Extinct East Germanic language once written
- 3. Earliest known system of writing on clay tablets
- 5. Script devised for the Somali language
- 6. Study of ancient Egyptian language and writings
- 8. Ancient script family including A and B
- 9. Simplified ancient Egyptian script
- 11. Study of inscriptions or epigraphs
- 14. Anatolian language recorded in cuneiform
- 16. Shape descriptor for ancient inscriptions
- 17. Hypothetical ancient script often debated by linguists
Down
- 4. Mysterious medieval manuscript with unknown text
- 7. Civilization known for undeciphered script on seals
- 10. Ancient Semitic script that influenced Greek and Latin alphabets
- 12. Legendary city linked to linguistic confusion
- 13. Ancient Sudanese script still only partly deciphered
- 15. Alphabet derived from Glagolitic, used in Slavic languages
- 18. Paired consonants in Ugaritic cuneiform
- 19. Alphabet of ancient Germanic peoples
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