The death of a Pope triggers a centuries-old ritual involving the destruction of the Fisherman’s Ring, a symbol of papal ...

Signet rings were worn on ... to mark the users initials on wax seals.Nearly two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, the gold, 16th-century, 'WS' initialed seal ring was discovered by ...

where Pharaohs engraved them with the original emojis—hieroglyphics—then pressed them into hot wax to seal documents, says jewelry historian Marion Fasel, who noted that “signet rings can be ...

Now, as tradition dictates, the late pontiff's signet ring will be destroyed - or defaced ... as seals (they were functionally replaced by a stamp in the mid-19th century). But when Francis ...

By the Middle Ages, they became status symbols among European nobility, often engraved with family crests and used to stamp wax seals on letters. As technology phased out wax seals, signet rings ...

The cause of death for the 88-year-old, who chose to be referred to as Francis in honor of the 13th century patron saint ...