Were the First Kings of Poland Actually From Scotland? New DNA Evidence Unsettles a Nation's Founding Myth

Were the first kings of Poland actually from Scotland? New DNA evidence unsettles a nation's founding myth

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.

Bones exhumed from cathedral reveal secrets of medieval kings

New DNA evidence unsettles a nation’s founding myth

Were Poland's first rulers actually from Scotland?

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. Were they local Slavic nobles, Moravian exiles, or warriors from Scandinavia? Since 2023, a series of genetic and environmental studies led by molecular biologist Marek Figlerowicz at the Poznań University of Technology has delivered a stream of direct evidence about these enigmatic rulers…

Were the first kings of Poland actually from Scotland? New DNA evidence unsettles a nation’s founding myth

An illustration from a 15th-century manuscript showing the coronation of the first king of Poland, Boleslaw I. Chronica Polonorum by Mathiae de MechoviaFor 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. Were they local Slavic nobles, Moravian exiles, or warriors from Scandinavia? Since 2023, a series of genetic and environmental studies le…