What’s new
New pages, improvements and corrections, newest first. Each page also shows when it was added and last updated.
- Improved Fuller entries, with new sources, for 20 of our shortest: five Egyptian symbols with the museum objects that carry them, the Masonic acacia, the Fresno Nightcrawler and the Dover Demon, six runes from the rune poems, and six tarot trumps with the oldest surviving cards. See Egyptian hieroglyphics, Norse runes and Tarot.
- Fixed A fact-check of our oldest entries: corrected the Chi-Rho’s pre-Christian history (coins of the Ptolemies, not Ptolemy III), took Sikhism off the list of traditions that hold Om sacred, and gave every claim on the Chi-Rho, ren, fehu and Christian skull and crossbones entries a source you can read online. See Chi-Rho, Om, Ren, Fehu and Skull and crossbones.
- New New: Aztec symbols and gods, Maya symbols and gods and Olmec symbols.
- Improved Collection pages show their entries first, with the collection’s own text after them.
- Improved More pages in Halloween symbols.
- Improved More pages in Christian symbols, Protective and luck symbols, Occult and alchemical symbols, Zodiac signs, Modern symbols and Buddhist symbols.
- New New: Taoist symbols, Zodiac signs, Occult and alchemical symbols, Animal symbolism, Bird symbolism, Symbols of medicine, Sacred geometry and Celtic symbols.
- Fixed Share images: lettering in drawings now shows when an entry is shared.
- Improved Shape pages with many drawings load much faster.
- New New: Halloween symbols, Thanksgiving symbols, Angel numbers, Modern symbols, Birth flowers and The language of flowers.
- Improved Each entry lists its first sources beside its history, with the full citations below.
- Improved Credited photographs of real examples on entries.
- New Photo search: point your camera at a symbol to look it up. Search by photo
- New New: Cryptids and folklore creatures and Tarot cards.
- Improved More pages in Norse runes.
- New New: Norse and Viking symbols and Protective and luck symbols.
- Improved More pages in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
- New New: Masonic symbols.
- Improved More pages in Christian symbols and Hindu symbols.
- New New: Jewish symbols, Buddhist symbols and Islamic symbols.
- New New: Christian symbols, Hindu symbols, Chinese radicals, Norse runes and Egyptian hieroglyphics.