Cretan hieroglyphs

Cretan hieroglyphs
A green jasper Minoan seal with Cretan hieroglyphs, 1800 BC
Script type	Undeciphered (presumed ideographic, possibly with a syllabic component)
Time period	MM I to MM III 2100–1700 BC
Status	Extinct
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Unknown; possibly "Minoan"
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-writing Cretan hieroglyphs
Sister systems	Linear A
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Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. They predate Linear A by about a century, but the two writing systems continued to be used in parallel for most of their history.^[1] As of 2024^[update], they are undeciphered.