The Scotts have a legendary origin story that goes back to their Queen Scotia - a princess of an Egyptian pharaoh: Queen Scotia, the Egyptian pharaoh’s daughter who became the mother of modern-day Scotland There have been red-headed Egyptian mummies. Joseph in the Bible married a red-headed daughter of the pharoah. The Scotts and Irish are known for producing red heads and well, there's reference to red headed people in the Book of Enoch. There is a genetic mutation underlying this. Question is where did it originate from?