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What the Heart Holds: A Story in Silver, Stone, and the Things We Cannot Say

The Heart Before It Was a Shape Long before the heart became an emoji, before it adorned Valentine's cards and jewelry boxes, it was a mystery. The ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the seat of the soul \u2014 the only organ left inside the body during mummification, because the deceased would need it to testify to the truth of their life before the gods. In medieval Europe, the heart symbol as we know it began...