# The two scripts coexist from about 1800 BC in the same palaces and share sign shapes and some sign groups, which fits…

> The two scripts coexist from about 1800 BC in the same palaces and share sign shapes and some sign groups, which fits descent from one source.

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# The two scripts coexist from about 1800 BC in the same palaces and share sign shapes and some sign groups, which fits…

The two scripts coexist from about 1800 BC in the same palaces and share sign shapes and some sign groups, which fits descent from one source.

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## What it means

Key question[How is Cretan Hieroglyphic related to Linear A: parent, sister, or neither?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWYGYVMBZ/how-is-cretan-hieroglyphic-related-to-linear-a-parent-sister)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A are sister scripts descended from one Prepalatial Cretan source.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/answers/ANS0DEE9PK2P95N/cretan-hieroglyphic-and-linear-a-are-sister-scripts)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## Sources 3

[Cretan Writing in the Second Millennium B.C.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJFSH64K1/cretan-writing-in-the-second-millennium-b-c)

Olivier 1986

SRC

[The Common Origin of Cretan Hieroglyphs and Linear A](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJMPNJRYQ/the-common-origin-of-cretan-hieroglyphs-and-linear-a)

Owens 1996

SRC

[The Relationship between Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A: a palaeographic and structural approach](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHEG2K8N6/the-relationship-between-cretan-hieroglyphic-and-linear-a-a)

Ferrara et al. 2022

SRC

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**EVD** 0DEEBDYYJE2R

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/sessions/SES0DEECGMX10RS/session-1-cretan-hieroglyphic-seeded-corpus-readings-and) · 31 Oct 2026

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