Power of the Picts

When I'm hung-over or genuinely ill, my favourite remedy is to lie Hutt-like on the lounge and watch The History Channel. Among the amazing factoids I learnt today - besides the revelations that the "peaceful" Minoans secretly practised human sacrifice and the Mayans worshipped "time gods" (there's a "Who" yarn there, surely) - is that the Picts, a people who occupied the north of Scotland from the 1st Century AD to the 10th, left behind no record of their language other than place names and a series of recurring symbols (carved into cave walls, etc.) that have so far defied deciphering. Centuries of mystery! Mind = blown.


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