Cretan Hieroglyphs
OriginGreece
Earliest1900 BC
TypeUndeciphered
About Cretan Hieroglyphs
A pictographic script of Middle Minoan Crete, contemporary with the earliest Linear A. Known from about 300 seals and a few clay documents. Signs overlap partially with Linear A. No bilingual text or lengthy corpus exists. Still undeciphered after more than a century of study.
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