They are hard to miss on Montana's highways: giant monograms printed on the sides of mountains, hills and bluffs. Hillside letters are commonplace in the U.S., particularly in the mountainous Western ...

Symbols stamped on jewelry can help you learn where your jewelry is from, when it was made, what metals it’s made of, and most importantly, how much it’s worth. Some are very common, while others are ...

The letters and symbols of Black sororities and fraternities have recently been the focus of several headlines. As Blavity reported, in September, a white substitute teacher went viral for wearing a ...

Artist Randy Akers has always been fascinated by codes, symbols and shapes. Inspired by the slave quilts of the Underground Railroad, which reportedly contained symbols guiding fugitive slaves to ...

In a new study forthcoming in the May 2006 issue of The American Naturalist, researchers from the California Institute of Technology explore the hypothesis that human visual signs have been ...

SUN cream bottles are covered in letters, numbers and funny-looking symbols – but what does it all mean? Here, we decipher the jargon to keep you safe this summer ...

With temperatures rising and summer officially here, many of us will be reaching for the sun cream to try and avoid getting burned. The bottles are covered in letters, numbers and odd symbols - but ...