New research has shown that the symbols used by the ancient Picts, who lived in Scotland from AD 300-843, were an actual written language, rather than just symbology.

The symbols may represent a naming system. Archaeologists in Scotland shed “genuine tears” upon discovering a stone covered with geometric carvings that the Picts, the Indigenous people of the ...

Earthquakes, called tlal-ollin or nahui-ollin in the Nahuatl language, are represented by two symbols used in the pictograms: ollin (movement) and tlalli (Earth).Ollin is a glyph consisting of ...