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
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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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Celts are mysterious people who played a crucial role in the history of ancient Europe. In this article, we take an in-depth
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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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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A water-horse spirit of Scottish folklore is a kelpie. In Scottish folklore, this supernatural horse-shaped creature lures humans into riding it. This behavior
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Gilmerton Cove is a mysterious cave system on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland. For a long time, it was considered the work of
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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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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On October 31, many of us celebrate Halloween, a tradition that is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ogham is ancient writing, of which the earliest examples date back to the 4th and 6th centuries A.D. The language of the inscriptions
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Standing on a spectacular hilltop in Glen Nevis, to the west of Ben Nevis, we find Dun Deardail, a mysterious, ancient vitrified Scottish fort. Why
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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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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It has been suggested that the Irish and Scots are related to people from Biblical lands and ancient Egypt. It is an exciting
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jarlshof is an ancient settlement near Sumburgh Head, the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northern Scotland. It is one of the
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This castle is located about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Aberdeen, Scotland, and is known as the Fyvie Castle. It’s an ancient
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Since the beginning of the 16th century, Penkaet Castle has been the scene of several unexplained mysteries. People who visited this old, lonely
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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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Celtic Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Legends about giants can be found all over the world. Some of these enormous beings were said to resemble humans, but there were also
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It was from Scathach that the great Irish hero Cuchulainn learned how to become a mighty warrior. The legendary Martial arts teacher Scathach
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Inchbrayock stone, also known as the Samson stone is a remarkable and truly fascinating ancient artifact. Found in 1849, in the graveyard
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - On December 26, 1900, something strange and unexplained happened on the largest of the Flannan Islands, Eilean Mor, Scotland. Three lighthouse keepers disappeared into
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Clava Cairns are located near Inverness, a city in the Scottish Highlands. According to no published excavations, the dates for the Clava monuments are
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Callanish Stone Complex (Scottish Gaelic: Calanais) is located on the Isle of Lewis, the outer Hebridian island, west of Scotland. This megalithic landmark
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Located at the National Museum of Scotland, the mysterious Ballachulish figure is a roughly life-sized figure of a female carved from a single piece
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are many beautiful cup-marks in Scotland. These very ancient carvings are the key to ancient art of our ancestors. These strange marks have
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Carved stones represent a unique legacy of the Picts. Many of them give evidence of the advanced skills of artists; some of the stones
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A sword similar to Tyrfing, described in our earlier article on Ancient Pages, is Dainsleif. It was made by Dain, one of the dwarfs
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Featured Stories
David Tee - AncientPages.com - When you go back into history, even if it is only a little over 1200 years, as it is for the MacGregors, details get
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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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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Almost 200 years ago, seventeen concealed miniature coffins were discovered in a cave in Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat, Scotland. It's a curious find that, to
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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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