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"Cultural relic" is a common translation for wenwu , a common Chinese word that usually means "antique" but can be extended to anything, including object and monument, that is of historical and cultural value. However, this has some issues since the term wenwu has little resemblance to the English usage of "relic". In most cases, "artifact ...
As revealed by DNA testing, a relict population is an ancient people in an area, who have been largely supplanted by a later group of migrants and their descendants.. In various places around the world, minority ethnic groups represent lineages of ancient human migrations in places now occupied by more populous ethnic groups, whose ancestors arrived later.
Relic (Preston and Child novel), a 1995 novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child; The Relic (Queiroz novel), an 1887 novel by José Maria de Eça de Queirós; The Relic (Anthony novel), a 1991 novel by Evelyn Anthony; Relic, a 2001 novel by Tom Egeland; Relic (Foster novel), a 2018 novel by Alan Dean Foster; Relic, a comic book enemy of Green ...
A relict (or relic) plant or animal is a taxon that persists as a remnant of what was once a diverse and widespread population. Relictualism occurs when a widespread habitat or range changes and a small area becomes cut off from the whole.
Some relics, such as remnants of the crown of thorns, receive only a modest number of pilgrims, while others, such as the Shroud of Turin, receive millions of pilgrims, including Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis. [3]
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He circumambulated the relic-chamber three times, entered it from the east, and then laid the relic casket on a couch of one koñi worth's silver that was arranged in the north side. An image of the Buddha was then, according to the Buddha's determination, created in the lion's reclining posture ( sīhaseyya ), and all the relics were enshrined ...
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