But considering the heart symbol looks almost nothing like an actual ... silphium used to be considered as valuable as gold. It had many usages that ranged from being a medicinal plant, being ...

In Romeo Castellucci’s staging, the gold “takes the place of sexual energy, sexual attraction, the sex drive.”Credit...Monika Rittershaus As a symbol, the gold means many, many things.

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Don't you love with your brain? No one knows where the heart symbol comes from. But we do know it's been in use since the time of the Romans. One theory is that it was simply a guess of what the ...