THE DISTINCTLY PHALLIC SHAPE of a collection of recently discovered stone tools in Papua New Guinea suggests they may have been an ancient status symbol, say Australian researchers. The cache of ...

Thousands of years ago, these five symbols appeared all over temples in the ancient city of Dūr-Šarrukīn – present-day Khorsabad in Iraq – and archaeologists had no idea why.

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.

For Graziani, this kind of symbolic usage is exactly what she has in mind for the Symbolikon. To make it easier for designers to use, she has created four versions of each symbol: a bold, black ...

A Devon woman whose interest in an ancient mysterious symbol has seen her travel as far afield as China, has now been inspired to go back to university to research other historical symbols closer ...