2booksin52weeks 2026! 1. Set in an Ancient Civilization - Iron Dawn by Matthew Woodring Stover #gamemastersbookclub #ttrpgpodcast #mercenary #ancientworld #fantasyreads #brutality #egyptian #picts #ancientgreece #gritty #ResistPatriarchy #clashofcultures #booksky #bookstagram #booktok
#Picts
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Timely, for my purposes!
I was just reading nova’s review of carved in stone, a storyteller‘s guide to the Picts. Which is an RPG/academia collaboration book on the ancient picts. And it’s a gorgeous book.
Plus, I just like street art..
https://idlecartulary.com/2025/12/13/critique-navidad-carved-in-stone/
What do Pictish stones, a Lego broch, and a nuclear reactor control room have in common? They all live in a wonderfully eclectic museum in #Thurso.
The North Coast Visitor Centre explores all things #Caithness, from fossils to contemporary art.
#Picts #NuclearReactor #ControlRoom #Dounreay #Lego #Broch #Scotland
Multilayered defenses of the Pictish fortress at Dundurn under attack
The seven metre high Sueno’s Stone near Forres in Moray - a Pictish cross slab dating to the mid-C9th and early C10th, with depictions of a battle scene and a possible royal inauguration📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Picts #SuenosStone
Boat arriving at the Pictish fort at Portknockie, Scotland, ~780 AD
🇮🇪 🏴 📖 **Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland**
"_While at present it is impossible to prove beyond doubt, Whitworth’s book highlights an important new potential provenance for the Book of Kells. However, it also serves as a timely reminder that our preoccupation with the “nationality” of the manuscript is based on a 19th-century construct, which can distract from other considerations._"
#History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #Ireland #Scotland #Picts #Manuscript
The Migvie Stone - a Class II Pictish Stone located in St. Final’s Kirkyard, two miles north of Logie Coldstone, in Aberdeenshire. Class II stones date from the 8th and 9th centuries. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Picts #Aberdeenshire
#history #BookOfKells #Picts #Iona
#Scotland
The Picts were great artists, producing highly sophisticated Christian sculpture, but it has generally been accepted that not a single Pictish manuscript survives. If the Book of Kells was made in Pictland, this rewrites our understanding of early medieval Scotland.
“If you just look at the archaeology of our top early medieval monasteries, Portmahomack stands out as exceptionally literate and book-orientated. The standard books will say there are no Pictish manuscripts. We need to flip that on its head and say that the Book of Kells is actually an exceptionally Pictish-looking manuscript.”
New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells
#Scotland #Ireland #medieval #earlymedieval #Picts #Celticstudies #art #religiousart
Two Pictish gaming boards at the Orkney Museum. (Label text is in the Alt text). From Buckquoy, Birsay, on the Orkney mainland (overlooking the Brough of Birsay, where there are Viking & Pictish settlements), about 9th century.
Most of these boards & pieces, I can't find anything about them over location and date, but these seem to stir some thoughts.
""It has been speculated that these Birsay boards could be the earliest examples of the [Hnefatafl] board so far found and might even indicate a Pictish origin for this essentially Viking game, especially since these sites have mixed Pictish and Viking remains"
(Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust, https://www.swandro.co.uk/post/viking-hnefatafl-it-s-all-fun-and-games-until-someone-loses-an-eye)
#Picts #OldGames #MuseumPhotos
The massive stone wall of the Tap o' Noth Hillfort, near Rhynie in Aberdeenshire. Recent research suggests the fort is Pictish in date, and was occupied between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Picts #Aberdeenshire
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Still Picts around - I'd thought they'd gone way before and that was why there was so little written about them.
ChatGPT&Co. als Lernhilfe für Kinder effektiv nutzen
Die «vier Schritte Methode» wird im KI generierten Podcast erklärt.
Experten:innen empfehlen vier bewährte Schritte, mit denen Eltern ChatGPT&Co. gezielt auf die Lernbedürfnisse ihrer Kinder abstimmen können.
#lernenmitki, #kiimunterricht, #picts, #kikompetenz, #ailiteracy, #instalehrerzimmer, #chatgpt, #gemini, #claude, #lechat, #pereplexity,#lumo.ai, #duck.ai, #notebooklm, #notebooklm.audiooverview
Bebilderte 📖Kinderbücher mit 🤖KI erstellen
Seit anfangs August 2025 ist es möglich, mit gemini.google.com 10-seitige Kinderbücher generieren zu lassen. Mit einem einfachen Prompt wird das Buch erstellt: “Erstelle ein Storybook über [Thema]”. Zu jeder Seite wird ein passendes Bild generiert. Im Hintergrund agiert das neue GEM “Storybook”.
#medienkompetenz, #lernenmitki, #kiimunterricht, #ailiteracy, #picts, #kikompetenz, #schreibenmitki, #gemini.google.storybook
Abkürzung zum Nichtwissen? - KI und Schummeln in der Grundschule
Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist in aller Munde – und auch in den Kinderzimmern angekommen. Viele Eltern sind verunsichert: Was bedeutet KI für das Lernen unserer Kinder in der Primarschule? Und wie gehen wir mit dem Phänomen des Schummelns um, wenn KI dabei eine Rolle spielt?
Mehr.... https://bit.ly/3Upwrth
#lernenmitki, #kiimunterricht, #elternbildung, #medienbildung, #kikompetenz, #ailiteracy, #PICTS
DNA reveals Poland’s first kings may have Scottish origins, challenging founding myths
A DNA analysis is rewriting history for Poland’s first royal family, the Piasts, who ruled from the 10th to the 14th century. Scientists had debated for decades the origins of the dynasty—were they Slavic local chieftains, Moravian exiles, or perhaps Viking warriors?
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/polands-first-kings-may-have-scottish-origins/
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#archaeology #archaeologynews #DNAAnalysis #anthropology #picts #piasts
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