The company’s chief scientist, Dr. Jim Wilson, found a Y chromosome marker among direct descendants of the Picts in 2013. The Scotsman.com reported he said this marker is the “first evidence ...

The princes gave the Picts wives – in return for a promise that any kings would come from the female line of a royal family – and told them to settle across the sea in Scotland. The legend ...

The Picts created two politically and militarily ... Many scholars point to the ascension of Kenneth MacAlpin and his immediate descendants as the beginning of the end of Pictish culture in ...

The Picts have long been regarded as enigmatic ... It could be the Norse or the Men of Moray, MacBeth and his family. I think Portmahomack was captured by the Men of Moray. The Norse wanted ...

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 ...

These include a proposed origin in eastern Europe, as well as a longstanding idea that the inheritance of wealth passed down the female side of the family. We attempted to shed light on the Picts ...

Researchers have provided new insights into Scotland's mysterious Picts. The people, known for creating ornately carved symbol stones, left little written material of their own to offer clues on ...

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The origins of the Picts were local to the British Isles and not from large scale migration from exotic locations in the east, new research suggests. The study is helping to shed new light on the ...

The Picts, called Picti by the Romans from the Latin for “Painted Ones,” were northern tribes who made up the largest kingdom in Dark Age Scotland, per the BBC. Noteworthy warriors ...

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