A common tale of the history of the heart symbol has it originating in Ancient Greece and Rome, as a motif representing the heart-shaped seeds of the now-extinct herb from North Africa ...

Ultimately, if Vinken is right, the persistence of the scalloped-shape heart symbol, despite its omnipresent modern commercial attachment, may actually represent an ironic triumph of ancient ...

This symbol appears to be based on the design of the heart, with the same overall shape and the curls at the top, though it is generally shown with a black and red coloring and has a fleur-de-lis at ...

National Library of Medicine. 10,000-8,000 B.C.E. The heart symbol, the popular icon for the heart, can be traced to before the last Ice Age. Cro-Magnon hunters in Europe use the symbol in ...