A symbol is both used and understood to represent a concept, object, location, event or linguistic unit. So first of all, it doesn't have to be a written symbol. It could be something like a ...

New research has shown that the symbols used by the ancient Picts, who lived in Scotland from AD 300-843, were an actual written language, rather than just symbology.

The symbols may represent a naming system. Archaeologists in Scotland shed “genuine tears” upon discovering a stone covered with geometric carvings that the Picts, the Indigenous people of the ...

In a symbol equation, substances are written using their chemical symbol or formula. The formulae of the reactants close reactant The chemical present at the start of a reaction.

A graphic code uncovered by researchers at the University of Victoria suggests that written communication may have started 30,000 years ago. ... I'll have to examine the symbols there, ...

The peace symbol written with chalk is seen on a wall on the Place de la Bourse in central Brussels in a 2016 tribute to the victims of the Brussels attacks. PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/AFP/Getty Images.

The peace symbol written with chalk is seen on a wall on the Place de la Bourse in central Brussels in a 2016 tribute to the victims of the Brussels attacks. PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/AFP/Getty Images.