RELIC

n. 1 memento, keepsake, memorial, remembrance, souvenir, heirloom, token, artefact or artifact It has been argued again and again that the Turin shroud, though old, is not a genuine relic of Christ 2 remains; fragment, trace, scrap, shard or sherd, remnant Deep in the jungle, archaeologists unearthed relics of a previously unknown civilization