I thought the responses here might be interesting but they boil down to "I've seen the Cyrillic script once, so I'm going to suggest that."
Humans are pattern recognizers... what did you expect?
Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
My impression was Russian/Georgian or similar too, but slanted wrong. Perhaps mirrored?
> Russian/Georgian Looks a bit French/Korean to me.
They have to post high resolution images.
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#63My own guess, sight unseen, is "Bird-worm seal script"... purely because that was the answer the last time I saw this question.
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#64Unfortunately, all I get when I navigate to the URL is "Access Denied". It's a pity because at the rate we're going we'll have guessed most the known scripts pretty soon. My own guess, sight unseen, is "Bird-worm seal script"... purely because that was the answer the last time I saw this question.
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#65I would've said the Hebrew script, however, the diacritics are unusual.
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#66It looks like cursive Yiddish.
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#67And all cursive writings looks alike from far away.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Left-handed for those that need clarification. :)
I am related to a left-hander who hates being a synonym for evildoing, so now it sticks out to me when people use it that way :p
And even there, "left" is a pretty different concept from "left-handed".
On a different note, French for left is "gauche".
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#70Here are the direct links to the not very high resolution photographs from the article: [0] https://media.tegna-media.com/assets/WNEP/images/323b9a63-45... [1] https://media.tegna-media.com/assets/WNEP/images/bdb99b5f-a4...
Do these photos and the way they were shown in the news not look upside down to anyone else?