All Ancient Pages articles related to Scotland in the sections of archaeology, history, civilizations, places, myths and legends, Biblical mysteries, ancient history facts, featured stories, ancient symbols and Vikings.
Scotland Archive
Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Meet the "tadpole from hell," or to give the species its full name, Crassigyrinus scoticus. Digital reconstructions of broken fossils have revealed more
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Picts of Scotland who have long intrigued and have been ascribed exotic origins in fact descended from indigenous Iron Age society and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered the buried remains of a Roman fortlet that once stood next to the Antonine Wall in West Dunbartonshire, the frontier
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New scientific research has revealed a piece of tartan found in a peat bog in Glen Affric around forty years ago can be
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study of great importance sheds vivid light on pioneering female migrants who made their way to Orkney during the Bronze Age
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland's religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge. A combination of
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Secret, coded letters penned by Mary, Queen of Scots, while she was imprisoned in England by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, have been
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 4,500 years ago, Neolithic toolmakers used this site like a giant whetstone to polish axes. The large sandstone was discovered by archaeologists
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A rather incredible discovery occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland, where a woman found a 135-year-old message in a bottle under her floorboards. Everything started
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A beautiful and exceptionally rare golden artifact has been found near Blairdrummond in Scotland. Experts estimate the pommel is about 1,300-year-old, and most
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early farming in Scotland was a less smelly affair than elsewhere, as new research shows they did not need to use manure to fertilize
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Crannogs are fascinating ancient artificial islands in Britain and Ireland. Previous studies have revealed hundreds of crannogs, mostly in Scotland, Ireland, and Northern
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Famous for the natural beauty and stunning wildlife, the beautiful Isle of Mull in Scotland is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During pre-quarrying investigations at Lochinver Quarry to the southwest of the town Elgin, on the south coast of the Moray Firth roughly midway
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils discovered in Scotland represent some of the world's oldest salamanders, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The research
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Isotope analysis of the "bodies in the bog" found at Cramond reveals several crossed a politically divided Scotland, meeting their end hundreds of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Knowledge about the Picts is still limited and every discovery related to these people shed new light on the ancient history of Scotland.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stunning new reconstructions have revealed how Scotland's largest known Pictish fort may have looked over one thousand years ago. Three-dimensional images of Burghead
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The use of radar has once again resulted in a successful archaeological discovery. This time scientists conducted a laser scan of a region
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com – A 3,000-year-old hill fort built by the mysterious Votadini tribe has been unearthed on top of Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland. Today, Arthur's
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings were masters of the oceans. They traveled far and reached new lands because their longships were fast and could sail in shallow
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com – It’s not the first time archaeologists find well-preserved food, and these discoveries are important because they help us understand how our ancestors lived
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ancient stone circles can be found in many places around the world. It’s still unclear why our ancestors created a circular alignment of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Modern people enjoy chess as much as our ancestors did. It is an ancient game that originated in the Islamic world. During the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The face of one of Scotland’s oldest druids, believed to have been more than 60 years old when she died during the Iron
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stonehenge in England is world famous and a major tourist attraction. It is widely believed that the stone circle was constructed in the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists, geographers, historians and volunteers have significantly intensified their search for the 16th century royal dockyards in the vicinity of Clackmannanshire Bridge, a road bridge over the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Beautiful Isle of May is today inhabited by sea birds and seals and the remote island is owned and managed by Scottish Natural Heritage as a National Nature Reserve.
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