The Coat of Arms of Malaysia includes the basic elements ... The crescent is the traditional symbol of Islam, the official religion of Malaysia; while the 14-pointed star represents the equal ...

However, the symbolic sphere of coats of arms isn’t very precise, unlike some of the meanings carried by ancient Egyptian pictographs. The basic form of a shield with an emblem can be embellished by a ...

There are a couple of thousand different Polish coats of arms. You might expect that these would all include images of some lofty or knightly character but that isn’t always the case. Many are ...