The Picts have long been regarded as enigmatic savages who fought off Rome's legions before mysteriously disappearing from history, wild tribesmen who refused to sacrifice their freedom in ...

The meaning of the Pictish words is still a mystery, but the researchers suspect the stones are memorials to the dead. Contemporary stones carved in Old English and Latin have been found across ...

Secrets of ancient warrior society revealed after stone found during roadworks. Monolith may be sacred icon from elite Pictish cemetery ...

The Picts, or "Painted People," were so-named by Roman historians because of their supposed war paint and tattoos ("picti," is the Latin word for "paint"). They lived in northern and eastern ...

They concluded that the Pictish carvings were "symbolic markings that communicated information" - that these were words rather than pictures. Prof Lee first published these conclusions in April of ...

A retired engineer and enthusiastic volunteer, John Ralph, made a remarkable discovery while participating in an archaeological dig at an ancient fort in Burghead, Moray, along the Scottish coast ...

The face of a 1,400-year-old murder victim is seeing the light of day, now that scientists have digitally reconstructed his features. The victim, a young Pictish man, met a grisly end when he was ...