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 ...

Credit: Heritage Conservation Jerusalem Pikiwiki Israel Through the use of advanced digital techniques such as multispectral photography and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), the research team ...

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 ...