The earliest uses of the Ichthys (Greek for "fish") symbol date back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, where it appeared in graffiti, inscriptions, and funerary epitaphs. Rather than a secret code ...

The Greek word for fish is "ichthys." As early as the first century, Christians made an acrostic from this word: Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, i.e. Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.

If you live on planet Earth and you have ever seen a car, then you have probably seen what is colloquially known as "the Jesus Fish." This relatively rudimentary symbol of a fish is ancient in ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. We all know the Darwin fish, the car-bumper send-up of the Christian “ichthys ...

The Fish Meets the Fossil Record This may be the best of them all. The T-Rex, feasting on the ichthys, symbolizes the greatest of all consequences of applied reason: it kills dogma on contact.

Ichthys? That’s what you call the metallic “Jesus fish” that’s stuck on some cars to designate the driver’s allegiance in today’s cultural struggle. Onward. Earlier this month ...