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Mysterious Scripts of Ancient Civilizations
Explore the enigmatic world of lost languages and forgotten scripts through this crossword puzzle filled with historic terms and mysterious alphabets.
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  • 1. Undeciphered script found on seals from the Bronze Age Harappan civilization
  • 2. Mysterious undeciphered script from Easter Island
  • 3. Alphabet used by Germanic peoples before Latin script prevailed
  • 7. Ancient Mesoamerican civilization possibly linked to early glyphs
  • 9. Ancient script used by the Mycenaean Greeks, predecessor of the Greek alphabet
  • 11. Pictographic script used by the Naxi people in China
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  • 4. Marks used in writing to clarify meaning, often missing in ancient scripts
  • 5. One of the earliest known writing systems, used in Mesopotamia
  • 6. Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic writing
  • 8. Korean alphabet, distinct though not lost, but revolutionary script invention
  • 10. Not a lost script but an obscure early character encoding system
  • 12. Carved or inscribed symbols in ancient writing systems

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