The heart symbol, with its two scallops on top and V-shaped point at the bottom, is one of the world’s most familiar emblems—found everywhere from jewelry to emojis to the Valentine’s Day ...

the heart symbol is about as ubiquitous as it comes. But have you ever wondered why the ️ looks the way it does, considering it’s almost nothing like what an anatomically correct heart ...

The heartbreak emoji is a near-universal symbol for the despair and desperation of those thwarted by Cupid's sometimes cruel arrow. But where does it come from? The 'love heart' itself is a symbol ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- From boxes of chocolates to three dozen emojis, it's an iconic symbol of love: the heart. So Rod from New Brighton wanted to know: How did the heart symbol take shape?

But the heart hasn’t always just been a symbol of romance. Across cultures and centuries, the heart has been revered as the seat of the soul, a source of supernatural power and a vessel of identity.

But the heart hasn’t always just been a symbol of romance. Across cultures and centuries, the heart has been revered as the seat of the soul, a source of supernatural power and a vessel of identity.

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 ...

Attic Red-Figure Kantharoid Skyphos, Aison, Greek (Attic), active 425 - 400 BC "You see this shape on thousands of extant items of Ancient Greek pottery, but the heart symbol as we see it today is ...

"But it really is 19th, 20th century, it becomes the standardized shape, and that is related particularly to Valentine cards," Kemp said. To this day, the heart-shaped symbol hasn't skipped a beat.