Explore the basics of ancient writing systems with this medium-difficulty crossword designed for 3rd-5th graders. Learn key terms like hieroglyphs, cuneiform, and alphabets.
Scripts and Symbols of Antiquity is a medium crossword puzzle with 20 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Scripts and Symbols of Antiquity
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- 1. No connection, invalid guess
- 2. No connection, invalid guess
- 3. Sumerian script made by wedge-shaped marks
- 5. Ancient Egyptian pictorial writing system
- 7. No connection, invalid guess
- 11. Sign system of an ancient Bronze Age civilization from South Asia
- 12. City where cuneiform tablets were prominent
- 13. No connection, invalid guess
- 15. Early medieval alphabet used primarily to write early Irish
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- 4. Angular Arabic script style used in early Islamic texts
- 6. Alphabet used by Germanic tribes
- 8. Type of ancient script, such as Linear B used by Mycenaeans
- 9. System or study of spelling in writing
- 10. Script used by a small community preserving ancient Hebrew traditions
- 14. Semitic alphabet that is ancestor to many modern scripts
- 16. African script invented in Cameroon
- 17. Carved or inscribed symbol, often in ancient writing
- 18. An extinct ancient script used in southwest Anatolia
- 19. Simplified ancient Egyptian script used after hieratic
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