ancient relics
Treasures from antiquity
Ancient relics are objects surviving from the distant past, typically valued for historical, religious, or cultural significance.
The phrase emphasizes age and reverence—a saint's bones, a pharaoh's artifacts, fragments of lost civilizations.
Figuratively, ancient relics describes anything outdated or obsolete: These fax machines are ancient relics.
The phrase is somewhat redundant, since relics already implies age.
- lost civilizationAncient society now gone
- carvingsSculpted decorative shapes
- statuesThree-dimensional sculpted likenesses
- amuletsObjects worn for protection
- templesHoly places or head sides
runes · hieroglyphs · steles · inscriptions · codices · papyri · ruins · idols · pottery · pyramids · tombs · scrolls · cuneiform · stone tablet · clay tablets · megaliths · petroglyphs · reliquaries
- museum itemsartifacts, relics, specimens, exhibits, Egyptian artifacts
- museum thingsart, paintings, sculptures, statues, fossils
- antiquitiesamphorae, bronze swords, bronze tools, antiquities, grave goods
- Museum Filmsmuseum guards, museum tours, exhibit halls, curators, display cases
- collectiblesbaseball cards, commemorative stamps, rare coins, mementos, rare stamps
- Roman antiquitiesRoman artifacts, Roman antiquities, Roman coins, Roman statues, Roman mosaics
authenticity/provenance
ancient relicsforgeries
Fraudulent imitations of originals
replicas · fakes · counterfeits · copies · imitations