A relic, in religion, is the preserved physical remains or personal effects of a saint or venerated person. By extension, it may mean a preserved remainder of a previous time.
Relic, Relics or The Relic may also refer to:
Film and television The Relic (film), a 1997 horror film based on the 1995 novel Relic by Preston and Child Relic (2020 film), an Australian horror film Relics: Einstein's Brain, a 1994 documentary "The Relic" (Silo), a 2023 television episode "Relics" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a TV episode "Relic", an episode of Smallville (season 3) "Relic", a fictional character in The Beachcombers
Gaming Relic Entertainment, a Canadian video game developer Relic Online, a former online gaming system Relic (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional magical item Relic, a collectible item in the video game series Crash Bandicoot Relic, an objective in video game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Literature Relic (Foster novel), a 2018 novel by Alan Dean Foster Relic (Preston and Child novel), a 1995 novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child The Relic (Anthony novel), a 1991 novel by Evelyn Anthony The Relic (Queiroz novel), an 1887 novel by José Maria de Eça de Queirós Relic, a 2001 novel by Tom Egeland Relic, a comic book enemy of Green Lantern Relic the Pika, a character in the Post-Super Genesis Wave timeline of the Sonic the Hedgehog Archie comics
Music Relics (album), by Pink Floyd, 1971 "The Relic", a song by Iced Earth from the 2017 album Incorruptible "The Relic", a song by Rings of Saturn from the 2017 album Ultu Ulla "The Relic", a song by Symphony X from the 1998 album Twilight in Olympus
Science and technology Relic, used as an adjective denoting that this source is directly from the Big Bang as predicted by theory Relic radiation, constituting the earliest light scattering from recombination and the furthest we can look back in time using electromagnetic observation Relic neutrinos, from the hypothetical last scattering of neutrinos one second after the Big Bang Relic gravitational waves, the component of the gravitational wave background originating directly from cosmic inflation
See also
Relict, a surviving remnant of a natural phenomenon Relix, a magazine that focuses on live and improvisational music Residue (disambiguation)