Rich with symbolic meaning, lily of the valley flowers crop up in art, literature, religious traditions, and springtime ...

Traditions and folklore expert Seren Hawley-Plows has explained the origins of the word 'honeymoon', and it's much older than ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Q: What do the symbols mean in the Our Lady of Guadalupe image? A: The 450-year-old image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is more than simply a picture. It contains ...

From ancient rock art to Egyptian hieroglyphs to Sumerian cuneiform, humans have communicated through iconography for centuries. Today, with global connections on the rise, these symbols have become a ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...

Here’s how it works. The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming produce and textiles ...