# Both Iron Age groups come from places of long pre-Greek settlement and are written in or beside scripts descended from…

> Both Iron Age groups come from places of long pre-Greek settlement and are written in or beside scripts descended from Bronze Age Aegean writing on the…

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# Both Iron Age groups come from places of long pre-Greek settlement and are written in or beside scripts descended from…

Both Iron Age groups come from places of long pre-Greek settlement and are written in or beside scripts descended from Bronze Age Aegean writing on the same islands.

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## What it means

Key question[Do Eteocretan and Eteocypriot continue the Bronze Age languages written in Linear A and Cypro-Minoan?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8ZPM19P/do-eteocretan-and-eteocypriot-continue-the-bronze-age)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Both continue their Bronze Age local languages](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/answers/ANS0DEECP9E8E4S/both-continue-their-bronze-age-local-languages)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## Sources 3

[Eteocypriot and Cypro-Minoan 1–3](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKJ13KKJ8/eteocypriot-and-cypro-minoan-13)

Duhoux 2010

SRC

[L'Étéocrétois: les textes, la langue](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKHFFY85X/leteocretois-les-textes-la-langue)

Duhoux 1982

SRC

[Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDRGN35KC5/writing-and-society-in-ancient-cyprus)

Steele 2018

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Both Iron Age groups come from places of long pre-Greek settlement and are written in or beside scripts descended from… [Evidence EVD0DEEDHGNNFGN]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEDHGNNFGN
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**EVD** 0DEEDHGNNFGN

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/sessions/SES0DEEE7NHGFE2/session-1-eteocretan-and-eteocypriot-seeded-corpus-readings) · 31 Oct 2026

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