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 ...

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The history of Pictish symbol stones in Scotland is being 'rewritten' with new research finding the mysterious monuments were being created hundreds of years earlier than previously thought. Did you ...

The stone was removed on Thursday for specialists conservation work A stone carved by Picts 1,200 years ago has been discovered in the Highlands. Archaeologists said the find is of national importance ...

The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that new research has just determined contain the written language of the Picts, an Iron Age society that existed in ...

EXPERTS have uncovered a rare stone in Scotland with baffling symbols carved into it. Indigenous people who lived there around 1,500 years ago are thought to have ...