ancient remains
Fossils and artifacts
Ancient remains are the physical traces of people, animals, plants, or civilizations from the distant past—bones, artifacts, ruins, fossils.
Archaeologists excavate ancient remains to understand earlier cultures.
The phrase often appears in legal and cultural contexts regarding protection and repatriation: The museum agreed to return the ancient remains to tribal authorities.
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
- lost citySettlement swallowed by time
- fossilsPreserved ancient organism traces
- ice ageEra of massive glaciation
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
bones · relics · excavation · dig site · tomb · burial · burial ground · mummy · skeleton · archaeology · carbon dating · dust · dust to dust · pottery · temple · crumbling · prehistoric · dinosaur
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossils
- catacombstunnels, passages, burial chambers, tombs, crypts
- Stone Agecave painting, paleolithic, hand ax, handaxes, hand axe
temporal origin
ancient remainsnew construction
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