The Picts were a people of Celtic origin who lived in the northern and eastern parts of Scotland from approximately the fourth century A.D. to the early Middle Ages.

The Picts took part in one of the most decisive battles in Scottish history - the Battle of Dun Nechtain (Dunnichen). If the Picts had lost, Scotland might never have existed.

The Picts emerged some 1,700 years ago in what is now northeastern Scotland—known in some sources as Pictavia, or Pictland—and left virtually no written records of their own and very few ...

The Picts, named from the Latin word "picti" for their reported use of body paint or tattoos, were a people who, in the third century A.D., resisted Roman rule and formed their own kingdom in ...

The Picts of Scotland who have long intrigued and have been ascribed exotic origins in fact descended from indigenous Iron Age society and were genetically most similar to people living today in ...

The recent 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath should have been a time for Scotland to reassess our understanding of the Picts. The 1320 document, written by Scottish nobles asserting ...

To detail the Picts' diet, researchers studied 137 skeletons buried under Portmahomack's old Tarbat Parish Church. University of Bradford The Picts were one of Scotland’s earliest—and most ...