Roman names, not just a list: Ancient Roman names, last names and nicknames denoted social status, personal roots, family tree & class.
The Irish round towers are for the most part detached from churches, as indeed were the two surviving Scottish examples. Originally built as belfries, as part of monastic complexes, they also served as watch towers and refuges for monks and their treasures at the time of the Viking raids. ...
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- Associated Names First of all to explain why there are so many tartans, way over 2000 in fact. There are an awful lot of Scottish clans to start with and on top of this each clan can have many different tartans and names associated with it. Bannerman Berrie Berry Boyce Boyes Fobbs...
Broderick, George (2013)."Some Island Names in the Former 'Kingdom of the Isles': a reappraisal". The Journal of Scottish Name Studies. 7: 11. For more information about Gaelic dialects in Scotland, please check out Àdhamh Ó Bròin's work, and his charity named Dòrlach, blog ava...
Moroccan_Jew Tunisian Tunisian_Jew Biaka Mandenka Mozabite Saharawi Yoruba Basque English French Icelandic Italian_South Maltese Norwegian Orcadian Sardinian Scottish Sicilian Spanish Spanish_North Figure 4 | Principal component analysis and genetic clustering of genome-wide DNA from three ancient ...
Just further north in the Scottish borders we find the story of the Worm of Linton – a dragon who lived in a den on the local hill, supposed to have been defeated by a knight calledde Somervillewho plunged a burning lump of peat into its maw on the end of his iron lance. The writ...
This box of Pharaoh Amenhotep II, decorated with an image of the protective god Bes, is one of the finest examples of decorative woodwork to survive from ancient Egypt. It is thought to have been found by pioneering Scottish archaeologist Alexander Henry Rhind in the mid-19th century. ...
This is a picture that may be a placenta, because it is used to write "placenta," but it is hard to see how it is pictographic. It represents the soundkhwhich occurs in Hebrew and Arabic, in the German pronunciation ofNacht, or in the Scottish pronunciation of "Loch" (a voiceless ...
Located on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago ofScotland, is Skara Brae, the most complete Neolithic village in northern Europe. It is older than the Great Pyramids and Stonehenge, and many think of it as the Scottish Pompeii due to the fact that it ...