The "mystery" of the Picts is being unraveled through high-tech media tools:

Modern media has moved through three distinct phases of depicting the Picts:

: Early literature, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Heather Ale , reimagined the Picts as a "small race" or "fairy-folk".

: Researchers now use algorithms to analyze animal and abstract symbols on stone slabs, treating them as a complex writing system rather than just religious imagery.