When you think of a heart, you likely picture the sweet little symbol that is seen in illustration, homewares and emojis.

National Library of Medicine. 10,000-8,000 B.C.E. The heart symbol, the popular icon for the heart, can be traced to before the last Ice Age. Cro-Magnon hunters in Europe use the symbol in ...

He concludes that the enduring nature of the symbol relates to a religious connotation of man's cleaved heart as a creation of God, and to the spiritual connotation of the heart as an empty vessel ...