Make Rome Great Again!

Lol

@@keith19934 now i need to see Cato with a combover

Well. All the children and men and women being trafficked would have liked that wall. I guess it depends where you get your info from. Too bad humans are still suffering..no matter how this great new empire grows.....

​@@joncrane7661this empire is reaching 400 AD, if you're comparing it to Rome.

You mean like Aberystwyth? Oh wait that's in Wales, gee guess those Scythians spoke Brythonic

​@@0002EcMAberdeen, Perth and Dunfermline are a couple more non gaelic cities - I also believe Dundee is p-celtic and q-celtic - a nice wee mix if u will

​@@0002EcMAber, the mouth of the river, Ystwyth, Wales. Aberdeen, the mouth of the River Dee, Scotland.

Aber is indeed what is now Welsh ( was Brythonic / briton lingo) and was spoken up there in pictyland. Old men of the north and all. As with any peoples on this tiny island, we are all simply assimilated. At least we can all pronounce medieval correctly ( 4 syllables , not 2 ) with our English English

Aber is Brythonic not pictish. Britons were all over parts of Scotland

Your point is well taken; it COULD be that Picts practiced cremation rather than burial.

So you are saying that the "Picts" may just be displaced persons from Southern England?

There may also just not have been that many of them.

@@manfredconnor3194 No, I'm saying that any foreigners who were displaced by the Romans, will have settled amongst the Picts.

@@manfredconnor3194 Have you done no personal reading? The Picts fought the Romans, the Vikings, the Angels and Saxons... their were enough of them, over hundreds of years that if they practiced conventional burial, there should be more evidence of such.

Ha ! Ha ! Exactly. But those of us carrying Pict ancestry know ! My grandmother - Helen Mar Douglas. Just returned from the Orkneys - my daughter’s idea ! Stayed in an old Manse on Bay of Cornquoy. Magical. Two ancient cairns 1/2=mile away on private farm land. Now - getting a Pict symbol tattoo on my arm.

@@nanallen1 You're a Yank.

Right!

@@Dimple_5 My Grandmother was descended from the Mar “tribal group” in Northern Scotland. It is my understanding that the Mar group was descended from (or part of ) the Picts.

They're bell beakers/Yamnaya...

The "Scots" came from Ireland - invaded .. I thought they were Red Haired Vikings myself.

I don’t think anyone was there, so we don’t really know. It’s tough, because it’s so much fun to create a narrative or think that we know, but the truth is we know less than 10% of our human history according to the Peabody museum of Archaeology and ethnology.

Lowland Scots Anglo Saxon Highland Scots Norse.

Weren't there Picts in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia area Way back?

@@kschoolcraft No.

As a child, I found a freshly exposed human footprint in the local sandstone cliffs, Arbroath, near to a known bronze age hillfort, and I suspect possibly close to the Doggerland latitude. My discovery was immediately dismissed as impossible... But I have a witness... The footprint didn't last very long, being exposed on a very fragile area... It took the form of an adult footprint exactly like that of someone standing in wet sand. Curiously, my maternal heredity is mixed, modern Irish, but with some Scottish ancestry from Loch Lomond, and Fife (McFarlane) My paternal DNA has been tested (although the veracity of these tests is inconclusive) but apparantly 98% UK Mainland, a, surprisingly high percentage!

No, you’re human. There is nothing superior about anybody’s ancestry in particular.

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Hmm... I thought the Votadini were Brythonic speakers, like the rest of Britain? Both they and the neighbouring Selgovae, who later amalgamated to form the Kingdom of Strathclyde considered themselves separate from the Picts, and their Cumbric language was mutually intelligible with Old welsh. Weren't the picts mainly to the North of the firth - Clyde line?

@@bsaneil Most linguists now consider the Picts to have been speakers of a form of Brythonic, too, based on known place names and personal names. Lots of groups in Britain considered themselves to be "separate" from each other while all speaking some form of Brythonic.

@@bsaneil My information has them as mostly Pictish and in the Edinburgh area on both sides of the Firth of Fourth, the northern part of Gododdin. The Votadini got along better with the Romans so when the Romans left they may have been open to options to relocate. The Votadini were between the Firth of Fourth and the river Ware during the later Roman period. The tribal capitol may have been at the Yeavering hill fort near Bamburgh. The Scotti were to the west having overwhelmed the Damnonii and working on the Selgovae. Most of the Votadini went to north Wales, the ones who remained along with other Gododdin warriors were overwhelmed by the Anglo-Saxons in Yorkshire. The epic poem called Gododdin by Votadini bard Aneirin praises the bravery of Gwawrddur. So mixed tribe likely but I would suggest mostly Pict.

The Venomous Bede is not to be trusted, are not all indo Europeans frim Scythia? Cunedda was indeed from North of the Antonine wall, the Gaels invaded at the same time, in colusion with the Angles. Indeed Vortigern was hated for inviting them here to the territory of the Gododdin who he sent to save Wales from Gaelic destruction and slave raids

Just because a cemetery is 'Pictish' doesn't automatically mean the bodies found are Picts.

I googled the bay, and Caithness.. it looks like a truly beautiful place.

The Berbers as well.

The Basque country is always one of the first things people go for to explain random stuff. Totally isolated language, plus Basque fishermen traveled pretty far.

Scots and Irish also have strong genetic ties to the Basque which would suggest they also came from Ireland but then maybe picked up a Celtic P language

There is a weird theory which states the people mentioned, Basques, Picts, Berbers etc all came from Atlantis.

Could be shared neolithic ancestry? ​@jooseppielleese7156

And what Borders area is that ? I lived near Thornhill

Where abouts in the borders? I'd love to visit those caves. Had no clue of their existance.

Aye, and on top of it I was born on a Full Moon. This month is my birth month and there are two Full Moons.

This reminds me of one of our Canadian cabinet ministers, Sean Fraser. He is tall and slim, and has black hair. He's from Nova Scotiaand there are the "Black Irish" too.

There are not many families who remembers cave painters from stone age.

regurgitated brains type narraterd

I thought the same

Where was that again? I think I remember going there once.

Dunnichen Hill. Between the village of Letham & Forfar Angus. It was to commemorate the battle of Nectansmere between the Picts & Northumberlands which the Picts were victorious in 685 if memory serves me right.

@@Global_House Correct. There’s also Restenneth Priory not too far away as well, which is also a Pictish site. I’m pretty sure the priory was build in the 700s and there’s actually still a couple of walls standing from it. Last time I visited the priory, it was full of wasp bikes and there was a mental bull you had to get past, to get onto the site in the middle of the field where the Priory remains are located………That bull was psychotic 🤣 Also there’s the remains of an old settlement under the water in Forfar loch.

yeah, so are these actual picts or just hippies?

Sounds hilarious, modern UK citizens celebrating an early medieval battle because "we be Picts" 🤣🤣

Wow! You have great family history! It's good that you will be able to pass this knowledge on! ❤

Scythians as origin sure seems odd. Ceasar or one in his campaign of coined the label, it likely means colorful people which matches up with all of Europe’s Celtic people. For centuries prior to Rome, the Celts were actually massive, Scotland across Scandinavia to Rusland through Central Europe perhaps to Sythian people ending at the Mediterranean in Spain and Pre-Rome Etruscans. The Celtic culture and people were broken by Rome in modern France, “defeating” what they called “Gaul” leading to generations of people being enslaved to become builders, warriors or prostitutes to build, expand and pay for Rome. The Vatician is no better and the “diaspora” Rome “caused” is simply another issue the 2000 year atrocity, “picts” suffer from. Welcome to the family!!

All times fault lmao

He lied to you for money. Pickens is Norman French and came to Scotland and England post-Norman conquest. It means someone who makes picks or spikes and is sometimes Pickett or Pike.

​@@TWbyAIPAC scythians are in fact the origin.

I have that set as my ringtone!! You can bet I get some crazy looks when my phone goes off. My grandmother's maiden name was MacLaren, wish I still had some of those tartans and things . In kindergarten I had an assignment to bring in a list of funny sounding words, I brought a list in Gaelic, everybody thought I made them up.

I like that but several species is kinda long, you must have used the speaking part?@@petevenuti7355

@@petevenuti7355 Haha! Gaelic words are something else, aren't they! Rarely does it sound like it looks. I hike regularly here in Scotland . Lowland hill and river names are fine but usually we hike farther north (in the Trossachs mainly) and we I'm sure we mangle those names something terrible! Occasionally I will look up the correct pronunciation online. I can naturally roll my 'R's and get 'ch' correct as in 'loch' [as opposed to 'lock' which is something totally different!] but apart from that it's take a best stab at it! Atb...Terry

@@TerryMcGearyScotland my girlfriend keep telling me to make that ____ sound (she would make some noise that's supposed to be a rolling r but ... Not ) trying to get me to pronounce a few things like that, and I'd pretend not to know what she's taking about so she keeps making silly sounds... I'll never have a real accent like my grandma, but sometimes I just sound like it ... just happens.

Because they were black people that's why you never here about them

They didn't want to get swarmed by a buncha crazy little guys who look like Angus from AC/DC playin bag pipes and swingin claymores at them? Just a guess.

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Those Scythians ( and their ponies) sure got around!

Don't grab too much "proud cultural insight" from the Roman withdrawal. It wouldn't displease nor surprise me to know that the Scottish and the Picts, whom I do admire, were steadfast opponents to Roman imperialist intent, but the Germanic tribes, especially the most warlike and very dangerous Goths had begun to seriously kick Roman butt, which pleased me to know, and Roman soldiers were badly needed closer to home. Like Cniva earlier, Fritigern destroyed a Roman army and killed two emperors. Soon Alaric sacked Rome in 410 ad. If I have it wrong I will correct my posting, but it looks that way to me. My Spanish family descends from both the Ostrogoth and Visigoth ruling Germanic military clans, the Balto and the Amal, respectively, as does the Patron Saint of France Clotilde, who is revered for bringing the Frankish hero King Clovis to the Catholic Church, when she was his Queen.

Although it's true the Romans didn't manage to take northern Britain by force, by the time the Romans had left the 'Picts' and the 'Scots' (as the Romans had dubbed them), both had adopted Roman Christian kingship. This means the Romans did in fact manage to invade the entirety of Britian and Ireland after all, if we consider a complete culture replacement to be a complete invasion that is.

It is I think. You have to have your wits about you though. I wish I better versed in statistics and genetics terminology to get full benefit.

@@TerryMcGearyScotland - Feel free to ask me for explanations on specifics, I'm very well versed.

Pythagoras means Heart of the Serpent, he was born in Sidon, a fishing Port in Phoenicia. His mother recieved a message from the Oracle of Delphi that he would become a great Leader and Teacher. Sidon means Kingdom of the Fish, and the Essenes, who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls, worshipped Pythagoras. The Sarcophagus of Eschmun III found in Sidon names him as the Widow's Scion, aka Hiram Abiff, the Founder of Freemasonry, of which Tyre was the premier Capital (at least equal to Thebes). In 911BC Rameses II married the Queen of Sidon, home of Jezebel (Daughter or consort of Baal, basically "Queen") founding Neo Assyrian Babylon, an alliance between Egypt and Hiram, father of Jezebel and King of Assyria, and Egypt, forming the Phoenician colonies and building the first Temple of Melqart to commemorate the alliance. The Si in Sidon is the basis of the Latin Exe, or X, and is the basis of the Cross, or Chi Rho that Constantine painted on his shields. Also known as the Cross of Tyre, or Cross of Baal, being Ra-El, or Ba'El. Oddly enough irrational numbers can also be mapped using Euler's number, producing a Templar Cross in the process. This cross can also be seen around the neck of Nimrod in Assyria, and is consistent with the Union Jack, and Solstice Calendar found in the Vatican Shiva Lingam. Shiva is the Hebrew word for 7, their culture also found its way to Japan (via the Phillipines) ultimately becoming Shintoism. It was the Phoenicians who gave their name to the Pole Star, which they used to Navigate the Oceans using the Zodiac, thats what the Antikythera mechanism was for, and with it they wrote the Byblos Baal, what we now call the Bible. The first form of the Bible was written in 325BC and called the Vaticanus Greacus, or Son of the Sacred Serpent, a reference to Sirius, the basis of the Sothic Calendar, which uses a Hexidecimal or base 60 system found in all the Megalithic sites around the world. In the second century AD astronomer Valentinus Vettori transcribed it into a Lunar chart of 13 houses, what we now call the Zodiac. Horoscope means Star Watcher, and the Phoenician word for Saturn, or El, was Israel or El, (Fruit) of Isis and Ra. El is the primary God of the Phoenicians, representing the offspring of Egypt, and his consort Astarte represents the Assyrian half of the alliance. It may be possible to trace lineages and alliances through the naming of gods, which can be traced all the way to Ireland and the Vikings, and to Indonesia and the Americas, even as far away as New Zealand and Australia. It denotes Sirius as Son of Orion and Pleaides, which sits at 33 degrees of the Zodiac. The basis of the Sothic (dir Seth) Calendar of the Egyptians. The New Moon in this position marks Rosh Hashanah, the Egyptian, Celtic, Phoenician, and Assyrian New Year, the first New Moon of September, which is called September because it's the 7th House of the Zodiac, when the Sun is in Ophiuchus. The Phoenix, Benben, or Bennu is the Egyptian word for Heron, a Feathered 'Serpent'. It baptised itself in frankincense and myrrh at BaalBek, and then alights atop the Pyramid, upon the Holy Grail, or Alter of Ra every 630 years to take three days off the calendar during the course of the first New Moon of Nisan, which means "Prince". The Capstone of Pyramids is even called the Benben or Bennu. The Phoenix is found in all religions, which are all Astrological Allegory for the Moon travelling through the Constellations, as a soul migrating from body to body, this is the basis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth, or the Hero's Journey. The various planets no doubt play their own roles as portents, omens, and aspects, this astrology is the science of the Bronze age, and lasted all the way up to the 20th Century. Resurrection was an early teaching of the Christian Church, and likely relates to the lineage of Kings (The King is Dead, long live the King.) Phoenicians represent the interim step between Egypt and Greece, their artisans and culture exceeding that of the Greeks, who literally adopted the Phoenician Alphabet, which we still use to this day, sounding out words phonetically. Phoenician is aliiterated in Venetian, and Vikings, being Kings of the Sea. The Bennu is the Egyptian Phoenix, to Phoenicians the Hoyle, no different to the traditions of the Etruscans, who saw birds as sacred, just as the Celts. Hebrew and Iber as in Iberia have the same root meaning over, as in overseas, as in those who travel "over the sea." A colony called Iberia also appears on the Eastern shores of the Black Sea, where the same Dolmens and Megalithic culture originating in Ireland and Brittany appeared circa 4500BC. _Phoenician_ means Scions of the Phoenix, the first Bible: Vaticanus Greacus Son of the Sacred Serpent (Prince). Then there's the Essenes, Sons of Light, the Tuatha De Danaan, Sons of Light, Annunaki, Sons of Light, Arthur Pendragon means Arthur Son of the dragon, Chertoff is Russian for "Son of the Devil" and Dracula also means Son of the Dragon, Masons have been known at times to call themselves the "Brotherhood of the Great White Serpent". The Ziggurat of Anu also denotes her as a great white Serpent, while New Grange and the Bru na Boinne in Ireland (4000BC) coated buildings with white quartz to denote the Moon. The Moon itself travels outside the Solar Elliptic by 5 degrees, which means it passes through specific constellations in a serpentine fashion that is always changing, but repeats every 19 years, the time it took to train a Druid or Magi, Magi meaning "Teacher" the Phoenix is also associated with this sacred number 19. The name "Pharoah" means "Great House" or "House of Light" and Cairo used to be called Babel. Pharaoh's themselves wore a hooded crown representing feathers, just as Native American Chiefs, ie the Feathered Serpent, they were also called the Commander in Chief. Aztecs also had Serpent Kings, (Canaan means Serpent Kings, and Sidon was a Son of Canaan, and Great Grandson of Noah) who were called to lead with cunning and guile, being the very virtue by which they claim the title in the first place; but to be seen in public as just and diplomatic. "As wise as Serpents, but gentle as Doves" the old Egyptian flag of an Eagle attacking a Snake is also reflected in the Modern Mexican flag, denoting the Constellations of Serpentis (13th sign of the Zodiac) and Aquila. The dimensions and 12 mathematical constants of the Great Pyramid are also expressed in New Grange, and Stonehenge, as well as in Watson Brake, (2500BC) and Teotihuacan, which correlates to the Phoenician/ Sumerian Hexidecimal system, which is what our modern systems of time are based on. Officially no one knows who invented astrology, the zodiac, navigation by the stars, and time keeping. But whoever built the pyramids, and pioneered the 24hr clock in Egypt 5000 years ago also knew the exact dimensions of the Earth, as well as the speed of light. These calculations can all be made using these Megalithic sites as surveyors use a theodolite. Specifically Teotihuacan, which sits 180 degrees opposite Cairo, and has the exact same footprint. The ideal positions to determine the speed of light using the transit of Venus, by which one can accurately determine Longitude for navigation. Capt cook did the same thing in 1774 when he 'discovered' Easter Island. The only culture that fits the bill was wiped out "not one stone upon the other" by the Romans in 146BC. Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia (israel) sat just offshore from Ur Shalom, City of the New Moon, or City of Peace. The root of the name Jerusalem, and was also seized by Rome in 70AD after a 13 year seige. The gap between is 216 years. Greek Dionysians built the Temple of Solomon (now called the Temple of Melqart) representing the Solar Lunar Metonic Calendar on which this system is based, they also carried mirrors, a practice associated with both the Magi and the Druids as well as Greek and Egyptian scholars, these Mirrors are Astrological charts called "Cycladian Frying Pans" and record the cycles of the planets. The first Temple of Melqart (the Phoenician form of Horus, or Hercules, or Pan, or Thor) representing the 13th Constellation of Ophiuchus or the Serpent Bearer (hence Orphic Serpent worship) had pillars of Emerald and Gold, representing Isis and Osiris. The Jerusalem Temple only took payment in "Shekels of Tyre" a currency minted during the Jewish rebellion against Rome. "Give that which is Ceasar's unto Ceasar" When Alexander sacked Tyre in 332BC they moved to Carthage meaning "New City" or New Jerusalem, where they built a second temple with Pillars of Bronze. Nebuchadnezzar also seiged Tyre for 13 years, taking the City captive in 573BC: the same time as the biblical account of the Jews. And again in 70AD after a three and a half year seige, also consistent with biblical accounts.

@@Uncanny_Mountain Wow, thanks. I’ll need my coffee first.👍

@@Uncanny_Mountain - He was almost certainly from Samos. Why are you ranting about Pythagoras here?

Beeker folk are muppets.

They Are Not! Go Read the Declaration of Arbroath! The Picts got Wiped Out! By the Scoti! The One's that Came from Scythia! This Guy Running this Channel is not Bright, and is Butchering Well know and Established History!

Interesting! Been to Crete twice and enjoyed the archaeology but didn't know that. Thanks.

@@TerryMcGearyScotland Thanks. Although I hope I'm right about it and you don't end up looking silly on your visit on my account. 😅

@@QueenChristine826 No problem Christine. I’m well used to looking silly😂 Part of the grandad role😄

That's so sad.... I'm glad this site is continuing.

It's a good thing, he's a far left anti white freak.. good riddance@@cecileroy557

It's fascinating stuff but I have huge difficulty absorbing it all. It's time we had a Netflix series based on it! 🙂

Anyone ever tell you not to believe everything you hear and that goes for the internet.

​@@davesmith3023we all came from the same people if we go back far enough tbh

@@lyssanch3096 Out of Africa.

This DNA testing brings up interesting stuff it seems. I'm tempted to give it a try. I would keep my chromosomes crossed to have something unusual discovered in my genome!

You stole my thunder.

Bran Mac Muffin agrees

80 Conq LFG

@@bluebird3281 Bran At Morn seconds that.

Maaaq

Dense meaning thick. ... and it was. 😉

At my quick glance, which means I might be wrong, it seems that the Picts might be a more pure Celtic tribe. Meaning that they were lacking or having less pre-indoeuropean "local" women.

If you want to oversimplify it sure. People like to categorize everything.

I believe they were Celtic as they were La Tene. Though I think they were multiple tribes. The word walhaz as used by Germani to describe Romans has been also claimed to be used to describe Celts but the only independent Celts would be Picts and Irish and the term afaik was never used for them. It was used for the Celtic speaking Britons of course, but they happily embraced Roman culture and claimed Roman ancestry.

He's an ethnic Yankee, of the native Yank Doodle tribes of North America.

​@RR-pe5or yeah us yanks are mostly Scottish, English ancestry with some swede/Norse mixed in. My own family from Devon, circa 1620s, and the Bennetts from north of the English/Scottish border. Of course like most Yankees, there's some other bloodlines but our major ancestry England 🇬🇧. Yankee by birth, but the British isles winning out. Sorry, you can't get rid of us that easily. 😂😂😂😂

@70stunes71 What do you mean by 'British isles winning out'? In fairness we actually got rid of you people a long time ago, your people have changed a lot since 1492, as have our stock population/people, or to be more specific, we got rid of each other following the Treaty of Ghent following the great war of 1812, however it's more the Yankees of the Yank Doodle tribes of North America who still try to attach themselves onto us rather than the other way, it's largely a one-way latch on complex as many from the British nations just simply don't and can't identify with Americanisms and Americanised things, in some ways we even have more association with our Commonwealth allies as we have a unique history with them that doesn't apply to Americans and therefore would be as foreign to Americans as many of their customs are to us, and even Americans don't and can't identify with us from a modern context, only in historical things and contexts, it's a strange contradiction all around, many Yanks still seem to live as though they are trapped in a 1600s timewarp, to them as it's as though all of the worlds history only started then and that the 17th century never really ended, we see this in many of the extremely outdated stereotypes the ethnic Yank peoples still have about us and our nations. Also it's a bit selective don't you think? To only focus on learning of ancestors who were not themselves Yanks when the vast majority of your most immediate and most relatable ancestors were also themselves Yanks? Why is it this attitude is endemic to America? No other nation seems to do this, it would be so easy to invade and conquer your nation again simply via psychological 'divide and conquer' tactics, which suggests your nation has a very weak national identity. A people are forged by their nation in so many ways than you realise, Americans too are very different to us in ways you don't seem to be aware of, why do you think that is? Is self-deracination really a price worth paying to be viewed this way in the efforts of attempting to foster connection to us when it involves the subtle undermining and gradual internal destruction of your own nation and its people?

"Who were those who built the standing stones in Scotland? About 3000 years before the Picts mentioned in the video. They were probably the same people, but maybe not." They weren't built by Celtic people, who originate from the Hallstatt culture. Since by recent research they might be actually far older that previously thought, it becomes harder to say. Let's say they were built either by the Tuatha Dé Danann or the Fomorians :) If you don't take those stories about them as accurate.

This Channel is So Wrong, you more so... We know exactly were the Viking DNA From, we know all this History, it's all known, and it was the Scoti that came from Scythia, if you Read the Most Important Historical Document out of Scotland you would know this, the Declaration of Arbroath! My Ancestor Signed It! It's Called a Pedigree! The Chief of Ross the Earl of Ross was 4th to Seal it! FYI the Majority of Ross' are Scottish, and Related by way of the 4th Earl of Ross on! Name once Protected by Law! I am a Scoti, a Scytian!!! We Crushed the Picts, go watch someone that actually knows History Unlike this Channel!

You need to do much more research. You need to look beyond mythology/legends based upon unreliable documents that have been discredited by modern DNA analyses and archaeology. If you have DNA evidence that the Scots came from Sythia and that the Picts were "crushed" by the Scots (does this mean made extinct) then lets see your proof/links.@@randyross5630

@@randyross5630 Scandinavian DNA existed before the Viking age, and after. The Vikings didn't just appear out of thin air in Scandinavia- nor did they suddenly develop the knowledge of how to build sea going boats. Actually there are quite a few Celtic objects from earlier periods in Scandinavia showing that there were trade links with the British Isles. It isn't all that hard to imagine that seasonal fishing expeditions would soon find the east Scottish coast, do a bit of trade, and soon make a regular thing of it. And where there is regular contact...well humans do what they do. And the Scythia thing was never more than the kind of early Medieval myth based on a similarity in how the names sound, plus then wanting everything to have a "classical" origin. I mean except for Bede's account, is there anyone who even mentions boatloads of Scythians sailing through the Med at what would be the right time? Even a small fleet? Enough really to replace whatever people might have ALREADY been living on the East coast of Scotland to any noticeable degree rather than just intermixing, so that one could claim later that the "Scottish" came from Scythia? I mean I seriously doubt that there was more than a merchant boat or two from the Med, if any at all- and who knows where they may really have been from. Bede just made the sort assumptions typical for the age; Scotti=Scythians. They were curious then, as we are now, of the history and origins of people and places, but didn't have the means to answer it as we do. They put a lot of stock in names and myths, and even then there was "culturally correct" answer.

@@randyross5630 The picts may have been serpent people like your Roths. The map shows them originating from the same water hole as your serpent ancestors.

@@libbyhicks7549I’d go back to taking those meds.

so where does the scottish red hair come from?

Have you ever looked in to Scotland’s Hidden Sacred Past? bestselling author Freddy Silva examines the Neolithic culture, Gaelic language and sacred traditions of the Scottish Isles and finds a trail of evidence leading to the Armenian Highlands.

@@MsVanorak my best guess is evolution. Apparently Scotland is one of the most cloud covered countries. It’s also just as common with the Irish, who are also very cloud covered.

Etymology of place names tells us a lot. Aber-Inver distribution. All the best, from the Pictish Kingdom of Fib (Venicone)

I would think this study is a bit more precise in the DNA analysis and data usage than those that are commercially available to ordinary people and groups. In other words how any of these companies might break down a DNA sample geographically, will not only vary from company to company based on whatever statistics they're using ATM, but will also vary over time. IDK if they give you all the scientific probabilities for each data point (like why they concluded your DNA profile was part Finnish and what the probability of that was compared to something else). Because if you think about it, it doesn't sound very likely without some known explanation of WHY there would be so much Finnish DNA around Eastern Scotland. Norwegians and Danes went west, but Swedes and any Finns who might have gone with them in real numbers went east. So it is odd. Further consider, that these analysis are done most likely by a computer that just looks for the closest typical regional match in their data. If the programming has a tendency to match a certain kind of Scandinavian DNA as "Finnish" regardless of nuances, then that's what you'll get.

So, I was born in Scotland to Scottish parents that both have names that come from clans etc. My 23 and me was interesting to say the least. 95% Scottish/Irish (high but expected) 3% sub saharan african... OK we all started there etc, then the curve ball 2% unidentified... Did some research, that normally means they have never had a sample with my dna to study good enough to determine the origin. Pretty cool considering the size of their database.

Appart from Gaelic in Scotland is pronounced Gah leek and Alba is Ala Pah

Clearly bird-brained.

@@sheikowi and keeps the women away and vampire... Gaelic, most of the population cant even read it.

@@wor53lg50I'll put my hand up to that! Neither of my parents or grandparents (at least) knew Gaelic , we're too far south. It does seem odd to me that our railway station signs down here are in English and Gaelic . I think it's for the tourists 🙂No harm in it though if it helps keep the ancient language alive.

@@Albanach-je1nk But, he's speaking English, in which case the proper pronunciations are gay-lick or gal-ick, and al-bah or ahl-bah.

The problem we have is that it's extremely rare to find any human remains from this era in North-East Scotland as the soil in this part of the world is highly acidic.

The word 'Scot' also originates from the word 'Scythia', by way of Scottish - Scot - Y-Scot - Scyt - Scyth - Scyth - Scythae - Scythia etc. The word Scutten is an ancient Germanic form and the word Skotto is an ancient Greek form. The historic Asian based Scythian also referred to themselves by the word 'Scoloti'. The Scots largely are an Indo group of people.

Explains a lot - - ukposts.info/have/v-deo/npKTh4yhjY2Jjmg.html

@@RR-pe5or that's interesting to learn, thank you

Some say some scots are from tribe of dan, sythians.

my dna test links me to both at least my true ancestry dna does.@@angeldevilleheavenly4009

It is utter garbage.

Survival of the fittest is a myth and a lie more popular than anything Darwin ever said. Have you ever been to Europe, let alone Scotland? Not very inviting? It's practically a paradise, rich in everything people could ever want and need. Your speculations are poorly formed, based as they are on ignorance and misinformation. There's a good reason that you're speaking English right now, and that's in part down to the very nature of the British Isles and the peoples who thrived there.

@@StevieMoore68 What does he get wrong?

Well, seen from the Norwegian " vikings ", Britain was not to be pushed to the corner of the continent but rather a heavenly land for crops and improving quality of life x)

Haha I micro-sleeped a few times, but the ghosts of my ancestors kept tapping me on the shoulder!

I doubt it because the pict were black people

@@tommyjohnson6410 So were the Romans, Julius Caesar, Ancient Greeks, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Achilles, Paris, the Carthaginians, Hannibal Barca, Ancient Egyptians, Ramases II, Indus Valley people, Bactra-Margiana people, Aztecs, Maya, Sioux, Cherokee, Inuits, Incas, Moche, ancient Chinese, Chin Emperor, Khmer, ancient Polynesians, Mongols, Turks, Osman I, Persians, Cyrus the Great, Abraham, Israelites, Moses, David, Sumerians, Akkadians, Sargon the Great, Assyrians, Scythians, Cimmerians, Hittites, Celts, Vercingetorix, Vikings, Rollo, Rurik, Byzantines, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Turner, Constable, Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth, Drake, Hanno the Navigator, Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Van Diemen, Cleopatra, Beethoven, Picasso, Cezanne, Bach, Galileo, Newton, Captain Cook, Darwin, Einstein... Have I missed any?

@@tommyjohnson6410oh yes everyone is black and black is best and history is being rewritten to this effect. If you dont believe this you are racist!

Sounds like you have rare ancient DNA!

@@tommyjohnson6410no, lol. The Picts were very, very white and had a high percentage of red hair.

The picts was kangz

The Picts were pretending to be comedians , like Gilbert and Sullivan 🪇😯

​@Dimple_5 Of course they would be Scottish, they were the majority stock population of proto-Scotland. It was Scotland in all but name. It was called Alba, which is the old kingdom of Scotland, which is the same name the ancient Irish (Hiberni) recognised in their 'Annals of the Four Masters' document, and that name Alba (Scotland) was related to the oldest and most ancient name of the island of Great Britain - Albion.

Exactly. I just read some ridiculous comment about how there is a Finnish connection...after years of researching the Picts...and earlier people of these lands...not once have I ever heard of this supposed Finnish connection. Far be it for me to say they're wrong, though but seems a little over the top

​@@Allapa-im9jrthe original proto people would not have been Picts, though since the Picts are of Celtic origin. However, it does make sense that the Celtic people who later became the Picts...would have mixed with the pre-Celtic Neolithic populations and thus create these new people groups, from which the Picts and other Brythonic peoples came from.

The same applies to German: nobody really speaks "Hochdeutsch". Most German speakers speak their local dialects, which can be arranged in families. Italian is very similar. France on the other hand, has worked very hard to get rid of regional variations (not all gone, but certainly much reduced).

And 'Norn.'

The standard variant in a language is a model taken by the state to have a language for administrative purposes. The thing is that it has also been used to commit ethnocide through stigma-propaganda:. The further a variant (or another language) is from the standard, the more likely it was to be targetted for its disappearance through stigmatisation of its speakers, explicit bans on its use in different contexts (schools, church, playgrounds, written language, songs...) and so on.

All the areas invaded by the Romans... were culturally destroyed.... tradicions and language destroyed....

I'm pleased someone brought up the Attacotti (?). Didn't St Jerome describe them as being from NW Scotland, cannibals and speaking an unknown language. For my money they could be remnants of the Neoloithic first farmers, practising sky burials and then defleshing the bones before putting them in long barrows, like you find in N Scotland. Just a thought..... DNA might provide some answers.

The Norse and Scythians weren't matriarchal either - they were just not generally strongly patriarchal (though this varied over the centuries and between tribes), but you do make some good points. The tradition that put Boudicca on the throne is unlikely (though not impossible) to have had a Scandinavian derivation, so nor can the Pictish tradition (which indeed, may be a myth) be strongly tied to Scandinavia.@@damionkeeling3103

They can use the Danube to travel to Anatolia, the path the original settlers took re the Cucuteni. Vikings served for Constantine by virtue of this route

​@@damionkeeling3103 same with Israelites Aka the Phoenicians

Q: Scandinavians were often called "Scythians" in Greek and Latin texts... A: They were known as the Sveones, Goths, Francs etc. and were not mistaken with the Scythians in Greeks and Latin texts. There were at least two historical migration from Ukraine to Britain: on the 2nd century AD by Marcus Aurelius, and since the 5th century AD along with the Anglo-Saxes.

​@@Uncanny_Mountain The Israelites were Hebrews descended from Shem, Semites. Phonecians were Canaanites from the tribe of Sidon, through Ham. So Phoenecians are Hamitic. Hebrews were told to eradicate all Canaanites from Israel, Joshua tried.

If you assume that a hostile landscape was already inhabited by a people unwilling to give way to immigrants when theres already scarce food and shelter... well Scotland has had a reputation of being difficult to take and hold.

I wondered what was with the East coast avoidance also. As the closer cost to Europe you would have thought they would have landed there rather than sail around to the west coast

I have twin granddaughters---one looks just like her German Mother with brown eyes, and the other looks just like her Irish Father with beautiful Blue eyes! So--- how on earth can you go back thousands of years and try to explain what human beings looked like? In the US, all we learn are the words---Stone Age, Cave Men, Iron Age, Copper Age, and now in the 21st century it's the DIAMOND Age!!!! I wonder who the Scotch-Irish look like!!!!😇😇😇'S

Scotch is whisky ,scotsirish are known in uk as UlsterScots

Its prooved it didnt really happen in britain, thats the benefit of being an island, basically the invaders bribed the natives as the logistics was to much off a head ache, the DNA supports this has hardly any roman DNA can be found in indigenous britons Lineage whereas Scandinavian/saxon can, but even this is in a small percentage as the majority of the DNA shows to be native as in celt and original to the land, romans basically came with a army and administration that walled themselves in, it would have been against roman rule to marry a native slave or it would be looked down on, and even when a native slave fell pregnant from their master the infant was usually killed or sacrificed, vikings and saxons did marry and have familys the reason why this DNA shows up more but this was no way genocide or with a simple breeding out, it seemed that both cultures adapted to each other, im guessing mainly because they was so close and likewise in those cultures ways of life and beliefs, also the native chieftains would marry into viking, saxon, nobility and royalties further strengthening ties with the indigenous population as with the danelaws....

It sounds very unlikely that whole replacement was something that happened unless the place was originally inhabited by a very small population. It's not like mass genocide was the norm when a group of people arrived somewhere. Culturally though - that's another story. As with the realization that "the Celts" were not a population or ethnic group, but instead a continent-spanning shared culture between various different tribes and peoples. And later there were the Romans invading the Celtic-speaking Gaul, and now everybody there speaks a Latin-based language - but nobody is proposing that this is because the Romans wiped out the existing population and replaced it with people of Latin-regional origin. Edit: In reply to the next commenter - I should add "whole sale genocide didn't really start happening until modern firearms were invented". The Romans didn't, Alexander the Great's campaigns didn't, the Persian empire didn't, and, to go to a later time - the Mongols didn't. Lots of bloodshed, but not genocide. The conquered areas didn't involve replacing all natives with Mongols.

@@tohaason TO who,??? to arse what??, to whats happened in maui, TO whats happening in canada, TO those in authority id be keeping 2 eyes on this one..⬆️..

"One question I’ve always wondered is, whenever one group moves into a new territory and takes it over, which we can tell from genetics, language, etc., how often are the killing all the people who are there, and how often were they intermarrying? " How often is hard to say. But you can see it from what happened to male-genome. What's certainly uncommon is that they exterminate the conquered women too.

@@wor53lg50 Wtf are you trying to say?

Actually, very interesting theory. In fact, I like it. But who populated Scotland when the Romans came? It were mainly Britons, because Gaels migrated into Scotland in 4 AD, before that there were pre-Celtic and Celtic (Brythonic) People. The mix of this people named Picts. And also, many manuscripts left about Picts. And many of them are calling Picts the true lords of British Isles. So, your theory is actually wrong. But I like it.

yes, the Venerable Bede is not a source. i don't know why anyone still bothers to refer to him.

It's French. Nobody in Scotland is called Tackett

*piqued

I wouodn't hold out a lot of hope for many Pictish bones. It’s very difficult to get DNA from any era because so much of Scotland’s soils are so acid. The guy they found in the cave at Rosemarkie in 2016, dated to 430-630AD did have links to people on Orkney, apparently. He also had some similarity to his contemporaries in Ireland.

My clan McMillan is said to be a tribe of Moray who derived from the ancient people of Kanteai one of the subsidiaries of the northern Picts according to book of Scittish Clan and Family Names by Roddy Martine.

Well bery good idea huj as Europe was also invaded by many

My parents are Irish I have a clan name from Republic of Ireland

​@@mairilinacremac heard is Scottish and mc irish hun just letting u know what u told

Audrey, although my surname was McMillan it is still clan MacMillan. Sometimes the Mac was abbreviated to Mc in written documents. I am 93% Scottish and 7% Irish. I am descended from King Somerled onf the Isles.

Are you related to Colonel McGregor?

that *is* interesting. and reading on it, looks like it is prevalent among north american indian nation folks as well? wild.