Among other notable inscriptions, a charcoal drawing was located bearing the shield of the influential patrician family von ...

The shield, in heraldic terms, represents faith. An open book, which signifies scholarship and the Old and New Testaments, has the Hebrew character "aleph" and the Greek character "omega" on its pages ...

An international team of researchers has succeeded in identifying and analyzing dozens of medieval graffiti in one of ...

Still, the basics of heraldry remained surprisingly close to its origin. In its simplest form, a graphic sign constituting a coat of arms consists of a plain shield with an emblem on it. An example of ...