New research suggests the first kings of Poland may have had their origins in Scotland. The Piast dynasty ruled from the 10th to the 14th Century when Casimir III the Great died with no heirs and a ...

King Charles has arrived in Scotland to celebrate the beginning of Royal Week, otherwise known as Holyrood Week. The monarch ...

For two centuries, scholars have sparred over the roots of the Piasts, Poland's first documented royal house, who reigned from the 10th to the 14th centuries.

Mieszko I, the first Piast ruler documented in written sources. Jan Matejko, c. 1893 (via Wikimedia) The date of that arrival is still open: the founding clan could have migrated centuries before ...

New genetic research has traced the paternal line of Poland’s first royal dynasty, challenging long-held national traditions about the origins of the Piasts.

This group is today found mainly in Britain. The closest known match belongs to a Pict buried in eastern Scotland in the 5th or 6th century. These results imply that the dynasty’s paternal line ...

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Secrets of medieval kings revealed by DNA from 900-year-old skeletons. ... The closest known match belongs to a Pict buried in eastern Scotland in the 5th or 6th century.