Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the ...

From director Neil Marshall, this Roman Britain-set actioner imagines the fate of the Ninth Legion, having them betrayed by a Boudica-like warrioress (Olga Kurylenko) and obliterated by the Picts ...

This is such a well-rehearsed kind of movie — the bloody, filthy, sword-and-sandal epic, ... The Picts presumably spoke a language closer to Welsh or Breton.) ...

The Venerable Bede, writing in 731, said that the Picts had come from mainland Europe,presumablyScandinavia, to northern Ireland to ask for land, but the Irish sent them on to Scotland.

The Picts lived in north and north east Scotland, including what are the Highlands and Aberdeenshire today, before the kingdoms of Alba and Scotland. Related topics. Archaeology; ...

Work led by a team from the University of Aberdeen Archaeology Department to uncover the history of the Picts has been shortlisted for a prestigious book award and will feature in two forthcoming ...

The people known as the Picts have puzzled archaeologists and historians for centuries. They lived in Scotland during the early medieval period, from around AD300 to AD900, but many aspects of ...

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 ...

The Picts show up for the first time in the written record in 297 B.C. and are depicted as a late Iron Age and early Medieval powerhouse, ruling the east and north of Scotland.

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 ...