We still don’t understand what these symbols mean ... in one digression, that ancient Scots “completely destroyed the Picts”. That claim is historical nonsense – there’s not a word ...

The 5.5-foot-tall monument, which dates to the fifth or sixth century A.D., is covered with geometric symbols such as ... was built directly atop an ancient Pictish settlement.

An archaeological find in Mexico revealed a stone slab with 123 hieroglyphic symbols that, in part, describe the founding of ...

READ MORE: Dig may unlock secrets of ancient Pictish carving More recently, the project’s archaeologists probed the symbol stones themselves and concluded they contain writing as well as art.

But some scholars suggest their ancient creators may also ... has created new interpretation panels for some of the best-known Pictish stones. Archaeologists and historians have long debated ...

By 681 AD Ecgfrith had founded a bishopric at Abercorn on the southern shore of the Forth - a symbol of Northumbria's secure grip over the Picts. The defeated Picts took Bridei, son of Bili ...

By the tenth century A.D., the Picts had seemingly vanished, leaving behind only myths and standing stones inscribed with distinctive symbols. “It’s one of the enduring mysteries,” says ...

Clues into the disappearance of the ancient Picts lie in the tiny Scottish village of Aberlemno: 1,700-year-old Pictish stones, marked with some very unusual carvings. (04:04) Explore Subscribe ...

Archaeologists struck lucky after they unearthed a rare Pictish symbol stone near to the location of the most significant carved stone monuments ever discovered in Scotland. The 1.7 metre-long ...

Maybe the symbols were some kind of writing that we cannot interpret. Perhaps we will never know their meaning, nor the lives behind their mysterious creators. However, Pictish stones have ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

A rare full set of ancient Egyptian astrological symbols has been uncovered under 2,000 years' worth of grime in Luxor's Temple of Esna, in southern Egypt. The set is just one of three full sets ...