The Ancient World

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Across
  1. 2. Famous caves in France with some of the best known Palaeolithic art. (7)
  2. 6. Script used across the Ancient Near East for languages including Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hittite. (9)
  3. 9. Language of the Roman Empire. (5)
  4. 11. Capital of the Aztec empire that is now largely underneath Mexico City. (12)
  5. 15. Trading people whose home cities of Tyre, Sidon and others are largely in modern Lebanon. (10)
  6. 17. Rome's great rival for power in the Mediterranean based in modern Tunisia. (8)
  7. 18. Key excavated site of the Harrapan civilisation. (7,-,4)
  8. 19. Battle where an alliance of Greek city states under Athens defeated the Persians and now the name for a long distance running event. (8)
  9. 21. Bronze Age civilisation that originated on Crete. (6)
  10. 23. Persian king who fought against the Spartans at Thermopylae. (6)
  11. 24. Person whose face launched a thousand ships according to the Illiad. (5,2,4)
Down
  1. 1. Extinct hominid group who lived primarily in Europe and Western Asia. (11)
  2. 3. City in Egypt named after the Macedonian king who expelled the Persians. (10)
  3. 4. King of Babylonia famous for providing one of the world's first recorded legal codex. (9)
  4. 5. Period of pre-history whose name means 'New Stone Age'. (9)
  5. 7. King of Egypt who ruled briefly and whose mostly famous for his tomb being found intact. (11)
  6. 8. Near-Eastern empire that produced the kings Sennacherib, Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal who make starring appearances in the Old Testament of the Bible. (7)
  7. 10. Sparta's great rival and home to the Acropolis. (6)
  8. 12. Title of an Ancient Egyptian king. (7)
  9. 13. Book by Virgil describing Aeneas' survival of the fall of Troy and journey to Italy to become the ancestor of the Romans. (6)
  10. 14. Early Bronze Age culture found across Germany, France, Spain and the UK named after the distinctive bell-shaped drinking vessel found at such sites. (6,7)
  11. 16. Sudanese civilisation influenced by that of Ancient Egypt. (5)
  12. 19. Large Iron-Age hillfort in Dorset near Dorchester which was captured violently by the Romans. (6,6)
  13. 20. Capital of the Persian empire now in Iran. (10)
  14. 22. Region of Mexico that was a heartland of the Mayan civilisation. (7)