Who were The Picts? Learn more about this fascinating, long-forgotten society, in this week's episode of Lost Cultures: Living Legacies. It's entirely possible you've never heard of the Picts — and ...

Picts that lived in the ancient Scottish highlands developed their first written language thanks to the Romans, according to new research. Symbols inscribed in ancient rocks prove that the early ...

A time when the Picts were a powerful political force in what is now Scotland has been recreated in a new table-top role-playing game. Carved in Stone draws on the latest archaeological research and ...

THE Picts, who have been depicted as archetypal barbarians for centuries, were actually a highly sophisticated people with an intimate knowledge of the Bible and Roman classical literature, according ...

The result of this battle was one of the most decisive in Scottish history. If the Picts had lost, Scotland might never have existed. For the Angles of Northumbria it was simply a disaster ending ...

They were the last major ethnic identity to become extinct in Britain with few clues left behind to help unravel the story of these mysterious people found in the north and east of Scotland. Did you ...

The Picts were a collection of tribes lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late Iron Age and early Medeival periods from around 270-900AD. They formed a tribal confederation ...

Scientists and archaeologists were making huge leaps forward in the understanding of our ancient ancestors before the lockdown began. Here, Writer at Large Neil Mackay, uncovers what we know today ...

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The people, known for creating ornately carved symbol stones, left little written material of their own to offer clues on their lives and history. Since Medieval times, some writers have claimed the ...

TEN per cent of Scottish men are directly descended from the Picts, according to a new discovery by a DNA project. Ten per cent of the more than 1,000 Scottish men tested carry the R1b-S530 marker, ...