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Mysteries of Forgotten Scripts
Explore the enigmatic world of lost languages and ancient alphabets through this crossword puzzle featuring extinct scripts, forgotten tongues, and cryptic writing systems.
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  • 1. Language and script of an ancient Anatolian region
  • 2. Ancient Semitic alphabet that influenced Greek and Latin
  • 5. Germanic language and alphabet now extinct
  • 7. A playful anagram hinting at a successor of Linear A
  • 9. Ancient script used on Crete, distinct from Linear A
  • 10. Ancient Nubian script that remains partly undeciphered
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  • 3. Undeciphered script from Easter Island
  • 4. One of the earliest writing systems, used in Mesopotamia
  • 6. Ancient Egyptian script used for business and literary texts
  • 8. Preclassic Mesoamerican civilization linked with early writing
  • 11. Script used by the ancient Arab kingdom linked to Arabic
  • 12. Term often used when inscriptions or languages vanish
  • 13. Ancient language of Indian sacred texts, precursor to Sanskrit

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