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 ...

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?

The 13th-century French manuscript "Romance of the Pear" contains an early depiction of the heart as a symbol of love. Allegorical image from the Roman de la poire. Image courtesy of Bibliothèque ...

Yet, some love symbols make it effortless for anyone to express this universal feeling. These symbols surround us in our daily lives, but have you ever wondered about their origins? From the iconic ...

This Valentine’s Day, as we exchange stylised hearts in celebration of love, we might pause to remember that the power of the heart has been a symbol of life, death and everything in between for ...

On Valentine’s Day, the world celebrates love by being bombarded with red and pink hearts — heart-shaped candies, heart-shaped cards and more. But why? “It didn’t mean love before the 13th ...

Why does the bloody organ in the center of our chests symbolize everything we feel about love? And how did we come up with the symbol for a heart that looks nothing like an actual heart?

The shape of a heart is universally viewed as the symbol of love. But over the past couple of years, the heart has come to mean something else for some people. “I used to think it was a ...

Its journey tells us a little about the way we view the world and our place in it. (Meanwhile, the origins of the classic cleft-heart symbol for love are still debated.) Many of us have been taught ...

From jewelry to emojis, the heart icon has symbolized love for centuries ... To this day, the heart-shaped symbol hasn't skipped a beat.