A tantalizing, but badly damaged tablet dating back to, at least, 5079 BC could predate the earliest known human writing by millennia. That's if researchers can decode it. Known to archeologists as ...

How an auspicious sacred sign was twisted to become the graphic embodiment of hate and intolerance. Kalpana Sunder explores the extraordinary history of a potent emblem. The equilateral cross with ...

Symbols are fundamental to human cognition and communication, transcending time and culture. They serve as visual or conceptual representations that encapsulate complex ideas, beliefs, and values.

In some ancient civilizations, ruins and relics remain until the present day, and you can still see the ancient symbols used in the present day. Bridget Alex, an archaeologist and science writer at ...

As a new exhibition looks at the concept of the loop, Joobin Bekhrad discovers how one symbol had different meanings in ancient Egypt, Hindu mythology and Renaissance alchemy. It is perhaps fitting ...