These Mesmerizing Carvings Tell a Mysterious Tribe's Story

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.
From the Series: Mystic Britain: Lost Tribe of Scotland bit.ly/2ZzTO87

[@whatquestion]

"To be honest, the biggest mystery about this story for me is why Clive gets to drive a car and all I get is driving rain"

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Says it all doesn't it?

[@H8er-Maker]

I wish my job was traveling all around the world to make educated guesses about something that we will never truly have a definitive answer for...

[@KadruH]

lol that's not how it works mate

[@lindadobson9854]

Bruce Simmons....Ha hahaha........

[@TUBESPECIFIC1]

I guess that's the recreational hobby, 'jobs,' of the wealthy? Might they actually be tourists engaging in a more intellectual exploration of the world where as average tourists go to party and then chilax on the beach? Military and English teaching got me abroad with 1 month and sometimes more a year off to just fly away. International travel is usually super cheap doing, 'backpacking,' where you stay in hostels, guesthouses, and use small local businesses for food and services.

[@LarsOfMars.]

You give Clive Anderson far too much credit by calling his guesses "educated"...

[@TheKaijuGamer_]

@@LarsOfMars. If you don't have the answer, the best you can do is have an educated guess.

[@SirImran]

Don’t wait. Make memories today. Celebrate your life

[@randallpmcmurphy7501]

“That’s so cool and so weird”. Uhh thanks for the insight.

[@lwalk69]

LOLOL...I was thinking the exact same thing..."wow what great insight she offers the viewers"

[@uekiguy5886]

She almost lost me with that scientific jargon.

[@randallpmcmurphy7501]

Uekiguy that’s probably her PhD. Lesser mortals like you and I struggle to keep up with these intellectual powerhouses.

[@uekiguy5886]

@@randallpmcmurphy7501 -- lol. I'll just go to my room and return to my Conan the Barbarian.

[@randallpmcmurphy7501]

Uekiguy Wow, Uekigiuy, that’s so cool and so weird! Was he one of the Northern European Pictish Barbarians? I’d be interested to find out cause I’m studying for my final doctoral dissertation on Barbarians portrayed by muscle-bound Austrian ex Governors of California.

[@123Dunebuggy]

The picts didnt disappear, the rain just washed off there body paint and went on as regular scotts.

[@TUBESPECIFIC1]

The video didn't quite answer what happened to them, but said they were Christian by the 7th century indicating they did become regular Scotts who then became proud marching bagpipers. pretty cool history.

[@disavowalf3351]

Nah, we didn't disappear, we just went to the bar...those stones are just our place-markers!!!

[@disavowalf3351]

123Dunebuggy...PS we were so used to the weather by then that our skin was naturally blue & resistant to rain...it still takes me a good month in the sun before I go from blue to white ;o)

[@julianshepherd2038]

Capital S and one t. Scots.

[@StuartAnderson-xl4bo]

CE the main pictish region was Aberdeenshire we are still here we never left never will

[@SusanDianeHowell]

Romans reported the Picts called themselves "Kaldis" or "Kaltis". When the Picts became Christians, they adopted the Roman term "Pict". The term Picts means "painted people" in Latin. The first to record the Picts existence in Alba were sea-faring Greek merchants, who called them "Albiones" (pale-skinned ones). They painted their bodies blue for battle, as was the ancient custom of the Celts. From historical records, Picts had red hair that was either close shaved or left uncut, and were known for their long beard. The Picts are recorded to have reached Scotland by the first millennium BC, and chose the best areas for themselves. They absorbed the earlier tribesmen who were known as Orcades and soon dominated the northern half of Scotland. Picts held the territory north of the Firth of Forth in Scotland and mysteriously disappeared from written history around 900 AD.

[@uekiguy5886]

Interesting, thank you. Do we assume that "Kaldis/Kaltis" has the same root as "Keltoi/Kelt"? Thank you.

[@SusanDianeHowell]

@@uekiguy5886 Good question. According to Wikipedia, in the 1st century BC, Julius Caesar reported that the people known to the Romans as Gauls called themselves Celts, which suggests that even if the name Keltoi was bestowed by the Greeks, it had been adopted to some extent as a collective name by the Celtic tribes of Gaul. France was originally called Gaul by the Romans who gave the name to the entire area where the Celtics lived. This was at the time of Julius Caesar's conquest of the area in 51-58 BC. Gaul actually covered a huge land area including France, but also Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. The Gaul area stretched from the River Rhine and the Alps, the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called Mare Nostrum), the Pyrenees to the south and the Atlantic Ocean in the north and west. (Culture Trip)

[@uekiguy5886]

@@SusanDianeHowell -- Thank you much for taking that time to reply. Hello from Kansas.

[@drrd4127]

You really think ALL the Picts had red hair! Oh, come on get real! It's a extremely recessive gene! Guess you are American because you always think people of Scotland are all red hair when that isn't even possible statistically.

[@QuantumMechanic_88]

Life is so much simpler being a well armed Pagan .

[@jean-michelnicolas9999]

They weren't armed against Christianity though ...

[@Alrights600]

@@jean-michelnicolas9999 It takes a long spoon to sup with the devil.

[@betsyrocks]

Very interesting.

[@chaoss5]

A Pictisch emoji? You mean a Pict O gram?

[@ok1725]

Ogham

[@leemog2334]

We used to use telescopes that turned light into sound, the vibrations produced an image, these concentric circles are all over the world and the same principle can be applied to microscopes, we found the perfect nesting points to draw a physical connection for everyone to see. I hope your reading, the 3shells etc, light travels like a snake eating it’s tale to form it’s head, I have 100s of pieces of paper work to prove my findings, I’d love an opportunity to talk with someone who can help me visit these places

[@vencry101choocher4]

I get the Pict-ture

[@travelz1729]

nice video

[@fluffy-fluffy5996]

To get a clearer Picture-ure”. I cringed so hard I can’t get out of it.

[@VictoriaStobbie]

I learnt, nothing.

[@TheKaijuGamer_]

Maybe not you, but I did.

[@VictoriaStobbie]

TheKaijuGamer_2003⚠ each their own.

[@PazBinv1]

Not even basic grammar.

[@jester6-1-6]

Acid patterns 😍

[@SL-suko]

I'm so happy I'm so happy I'm so happy!!

[@fluffy-fluffy5996]

And nah, I am more into runes. Did a runetour while studying in Sweden once. Old vans, not comfortable at all to go a bit off-road but surely much fun and educational. Beautiful landscapes too. Not sure if I rank it higher than my VIP-trip to the Marabou chocolate factory though hehehe. Tasting chocolate all throughout the morning, I literally didn’t eat apart from some fruit at night. It was awesome, yet something completely different lol. Still, perfectly Swedish/Scandinavian. It had history in it, so it counts as a historical trip too 😂

[@jamiefoyers2800]

I love the Pictish art but what annoys me is this narrative of "Oh yes...Nessie ate them"...don't start me!. That was another tribe living near Loch Ness matey!. I was reading a bit of a Pictish book on me travels in St Andrews yesterday...Pictish stronghold in the east of the country and proud of it!.

[@stonew1927]

Fascinating. I'd never heard of the Picts. Wonder where they derived their name from (or historians attributed their name from...)?

[@QuantumMechanic_88]

The name Pict is from the latin word "Picti" and there is a great deal of speculation as to what the latin means . The Picts lived north of the rivers Forth & Clyde and their is some speculation the latin "Picti" is in reference to this region . The Picts come from the earlier Caledonii peoples .

[@stonew1927]

@@QuantumMechanic_88 Great to know. Thank you!

[@LarsOfMars.]

@@QuantumMechanic_88 The Picts inhabited large swathes of what is now South Lanarkshire with evidence of their holdings as far south as Dumfries. To what extent their culture covered the remaining part of (what is now) Scotland is not known one way or another (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence) but it is highly possible it extended into (what is now) England pre-Roman conquest and documentation.

[@LarsOfMars.]

The term Pict is derived from the Latin 'pictii', meaning 'painted ones' as a description of their tattood and painted bodies. The Picts ultimately adopted this monicker in the latter part of their existence as a distinct culture/people but we do not know what they called themselves pre-Roman contact. Perhaps one day we shall find their Rosetta Stone and decipher their carvings.

[@angelgutierrez-kg5du]

Top gear

[@K-FOREST_Original]

All are mysterious in natural phenomena.

[@user-ol2fb9fo7r]

The Picts and Basque are the same people. The natives before the Celts came.

[@sandrider1406]

The Picts, warriors that fought the Romans. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@dougieranger]

My ancestors.

[@QuantumMechanic_88]

Same here and still Pagan .

[@TheKaijuGamer_]

@Brian Landers Not all of Europe is pagan you know.

[@thewolverinespirit22]

As a pagan man ,I can say they probably had a raven god and creature on the first one could be a mammoth

[@LarsOfMars.]

The Picts weren't "a tribe" - they were a people of a common culture comprised of many social groups with their own hierarchies and traditions. This is not the quality of presentation I expect from such a venerable institution. Poor show. For shame.

[@jean-michelnicolas9999]

This is a 4 minutes KZbin video, what do you expect ?

[@LarsOfMars.]

@@jean-michelnicolas9999 For Clive Anderson's understanding, and vocabulary to extend beyond 'tribe'. This is the Smithsonian channel, not Tropes r Us.

[@TheKaijuGamer_]

The Picts were a people of northern Scotland who are defined as a "confederation of tribal units whose political motivations derived from a need to ally against common enemies" (McHardy, 176).

[@LarsOfMars.]

@@TheKaijuGamer_ Thanks for the McHardy citation, and illustrating my point so concisely.

[@youngrocky5139]

Imagine the people who carved the stone meant for it to say f*** off🤣.......👀

[@ML-bw4yt]

The Picts weren’t a tribe the Picts is just a name given to the several tribes of northern Britain from 300-900ad

[@leadersofthenewschool]

Those carvings are obviously wood pigeons

[@radwulfeboraci7504]

Didn't they merge with Irish Gaels to form Scotland?

[@blairrobert3438]

Sort of. The Gaels claimed it was a peaceful merger where the picts lost all their language and customs and Columba convinced them to become Christians. It's more likely the Gaels conquered them after the Picts became too weak fighting the Angles and Vikings. The Scots were a combination of Gaels/Picts/Britons/Flemish/Angles and later Normans. Although the Flemish/Norman influence in Scotland is very different to England/Wales/Ireland. Scotland was never conquered by the Normans. Some of them moved here after William the Conqueror invaded Angleland/England. Some of the great names is Scottish history like the Bruce has family descended from the royal line of Charlemagne. Despite the Norman/English expansion efforts they were unable to conquer Scotland just like the Vikings/Romans etc. It's not a place easy to conquer due to the terrain and tribal nature of the people.

[@Theo46557]

Sup

[@greywolf9292]

Almost all Pictish forts were vitrified, historians surmising they somehow did this themselves, but what if the vitrification was a result of total destruction? Legend tells of a Mighty Giant Warrior King armed with a lightening rod? Whilst covered up history tells of a fiery comet torching everything in its path. The symbols rather than simply implying a name, are evidence of a deep knowledge of intricate geology ( the squaring of the circle). Mystery upon Mystery?!!

[@user-Bn8hG6gftrsh]

I worship our mother the sun :)

[@ahmadnawaz9448]

Ancient civilization, but place is attractive if free from coronavirus.

[@blobleyobble9841]

What most likely happened is the picts were decimated by the vikings, and due to this integrated into the incoming gaelic culture of the Scotts, who came from Ireland. DNA tests have been done and many modern Scotts descend from the picts.

[@drrd4127]

I am Scottish and I did my family tree which had Royality so I got back to 49AD and there it was a Pictish Princess, my direct ancestor. I actually grew up in what is Pictish Territory.

[@corablunt-zy2be]

It's weird I'm english from england and a pagan from my Dads side of the family name is Irish and from my mum's side is Scottish my grandad is Scottish native from the macdonald clan and we have roots with some guy somerlend Norse Gaelic the Lord of the island

[@einienj3281]

Looks like Viking images..

[@alistairwilson5344]

Look again.

[@susprime7018]

They became Celts.

[@smorgan7297]

I feel so lucky that I get to watch UK history on the Smithsonian channel. I get that it's history, but did they recruit a producer from Birmingham, UK when they meant to get one from Birmingham, AL, US?

[@zachdietrich4648]

pict men got killed. pict women married invading Godelics. the high kingship was matrilineal: so would be clan chieftanship be in a later time. they didn't "disappear" any more than the "Anglo Saxons invaded." they just changed.

[@alistairwilson5344]

Godelics?Who were they?

[@zachdietrich4648]

@@alistairwilson5344 oh spelling. irish tribes were goidels. the "scoti" or small boat pirates of whom the romans wrote. "goidelic."

[@b_uppy]

Some of those images look Egyptian. Where did the Picts come from???

[@QuantumMechanic_88]

The Picts aren't a "lost tribe" . They were and still are the indigenous peoples of Scotland and debate-ably Ireland .

[@yourhuckleberry6757]

Yeah that was discovered by German anthropology in the 30s. Now the DNA and genetics studies are getting buried.. Look it up. Scotland was even named after an Egyptian princess. They might have been the original Levant diaspora...The snake tribe of Dan. And that can't be.. Will never be the truth no matter what. Lol

[@QuantumMechanic_88]

@@yourhuckleberry6757 Very interesting comment . The Freemasons to this day have the Scottish Rite which incorporates Egyptian lore , spiritual beliefs , science and mathematics . Osiris is an integral part of Freemason beliefs and teaching .

[@yourhuckleberry6757]

@@QuantumMechanic_88 Islam even recognizes English royalty to be related to mahomad..It's all a show.

[@b_uppy]

@@QuantumMechanic_88 Never said they were 'a lost tribe'. Just noting the similarity of the some of the art to that of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Would also like to hear how they are different to the Celts.

[@deltaoscaruniform1316]

The worst subtitle pun ever. 0:38

[@shwattzfredrick4950]

Yeet

[@agogalung9203]

SALAMUN YG KALIAN INJAK ITU KUBURAN BANGSA PARA DEWA2× ITU DIMASA LAMPAU ITU YAH",MAKA ITU BUKANLAH BENDAH YG JATUH DARI BUMBUNGAN RUMAH BUMI ITU ATAU LANGIT ITU YAH",TERPUJILAH SALAMUN💐🙏💐.

[@PazBinv1]

OK.

[@PrincessEmerald]

My DNA proves that we are still alive I’m the Real Royal Blood of Ireland Scotland and England

[@mockingmicah5045]

So they basically used ruins like Vikings did

[@Maoilios12]

That's the thing, we don't know what the symbols mean. Are they a sort of language like Norse runes or something more along the lines of heraldry?

[@budisoemantri2303]

More like hieroglyph in ancient Egypt

[@GrandAncientOak]

Crosses were used well before Christianity. It is not obvious that crosses are Christian.

[@agogalung9203]

SALAMUN SIMBOL2× ITU BUKAN DARI SUKU BANGSA KALIAN INDIAN ITU YAH",BUKAN MEREKA ITU ZAMAN PERDEWAAN BISANYA MASIH TERLIHAT ITU YAH",TERPUJILAH SALAMUN 💐🙏💐.

[@maxsager139]

I have not seen the video, but I know it is a video of reptiles. Am I wrong?

[@gwn_ayrton6966]

nice i am first

[@agogalung9203]

SALAMUN SALAH KALIAN ITU ITU BUKAN BANGSA LELUHUR INDIAN KALIAN ITU SENDIRI ITU YAH",DARI PALIASA KUBURAN ITU DARI DINASTI PERDEWAAN WAH DAHULUHNYA DISITU ADA SEBUAH KERAJAAN YG MEGAH ITU YAH",DARI ZAMAN PERDEWAAN ITU SENDIRI MEREK TINGGI BESAR2× ITU YAH",TERPUJILAH SALAMUN💐🙏💐.

[@PazBinv1]

OK.

[@vencry101choocher4]

first one here

[@JungleJargon]

Lost tribe of Israel?

[@PlannedObsolescence]

Stop it.

[@JungleJargon]

@@PlannedObsolescence I - Y chromosome?

[@InfamousMedia]

I've heard a few things now about the celts being from spain/mediterranean areas, or at least in the earlier days around the viking invasions and prior, let's say 900 AD and before. Care to elaborate or have any links?

[@Bill-zp2mt]

"Mysterious Tribe's Story", changing faith is mysterious ?