Ancient object

The answer

RELIC

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RELIC answer page.

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RELIC

Every other clue in this collection answered by RELIC, most used first.

• Museum piece - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
• Memento - used 60 times, most recently in 2018
• Thing of the past - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Archaeologist's find - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Ancient artifact - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Artifact - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Keepsake - used 33 times, most recently in 2018
• Piece of the past - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Dig find - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Piece of history - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Archaeological find - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Museum artifact - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Souvenir - used 16 times, most recently in 2007
• Vestige - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
• Archeologist's find - used 13 times, most recently in 2006
• Museum item - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Excavation find - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Historical object - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Historical artifact - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Archaeology find - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Shroud of Turin, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• A bit of antiquity - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Archaeological artifact - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Archaeological treasure - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Holdover - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Something old - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Souvenir of the past - used 6 times, most recently in 2007

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Ancient Mexican - AZTEC, used 78 times
• Ancient Greek region - IONIA, used 59 times
• Ancient Greek colony - IONIA, used 58 times
• Ancient marketplace - AGORA, used 49 times
• Ancient - OLDEN, used 46 times
• Ancient Greek marketplace - AGORA, used 45 times

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