The modern heart symbol became widespread in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Nowadays, everyone probably knows that the human heart is not like the way we draw it. Pierre Vinkin A Dutch neurosurgeon was curious about the source of what everyone imagines our most important organ looks like, he wrote IFLScience.
According to the expert, the oldest illustration of the classical heart symbol most likely comes from a 13th-century text inspired by Aristotle's description. However, according to other sources, it is also possible that the shape was copied from the leaf of a now extinct species, the silphium. This plant, which grew along the coast of North Africa, was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans as a means of birth control.
The first replicas of the coronary system were created in the 1950s, when artificial materials were injected into the aortas of dead people and molds that surprisingly resembled the common shape of the heart were produced.
Later, by injecting contrasting dyes into the coronary arteries, it became possible to determine the accuracy of these drawings. But the question that arises is how ancient experts were able to notice all this thousands of years before modern science confirmed their truth. There is no answer to this question yet, so researchers are conducting further investigations.
