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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carved in Stone depicts early inhabitants of north-east Scotland as multiracial The Picts have been depicted as black in a new ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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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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, ...

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 ...