In the centuries following the heyday of ancient Greece, the caduceus endured as a symbol of travel and commerce, two subjects under Hermes’s godly domain. The icon was worked into emblems of the ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods.

A rare full set of ancient Egyptian astrological symbols has been uncovered under ... the Big Dipper to a bull's leg tied to a stake by a goddess in hippo form, per a press release.