Many of the symbolic forms and colours adorning these striking garments are rooted in ancient legends.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.

WSJ: Neanderthals: Why Us and Not Them?

These works share many visual characteristics, exploring the fertile territory of the unconscious that Freud and others had opened for 20th-century artists: a rich array of surreal forms that move between the representational and the symbolic.

WSJ: Becoming Mark Rothko | The Decisive Decade | Columbus Museum of Art

But when peace returns, the rehabilitation and enhancement of these highly symbolic sites, as well as that of cultural spaces or forms of cultural expression belonging to the intangible heritage, can sometimes help to strengthen the process of national reconciliation and revive economic activity.

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