In Buddhism, known as the manji in Japanese, the emblem signifies the Buddha's footsteps. To Jains it means a spiritual teacher. In India, it's a symbol of the sun god with a clockwise orientation ...

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.

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.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is two decades since the Africa: The Art of a Continent exhibition was held at London’s Royal Academy ...

The Sun A total solar eclipse from 2471 B.C. may have shaken Egypt's cult of the sun. ... Ancient African Skies. ... some matching the ancient property symbols of the Kush, ...

Ancient Egyptians believed the symbol conferred health and healing. Tucked into the mummy wrappings, wedjat eye charms were thought to help the dead pass into afterlife. Wedjats were variably depicted ...

Helen A. Berger is a r esident Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center.. This article originally appeared on The Conversation.. Just before the supermarket shooting that ...