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Definition :

Antiquity, includes--(i) any coin, sculpture, manuscript, epigraph, or other work of art or craftsmanship, (ii) any article, object or thing detached, from a building or cave, (iii) any article, object or thing illustrative of science, art, crafts, literature, religion, customs, morals or politics in bygone ages, (iv) any article, object or thing of historical interest, and (v) any article, object or things declared by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to be an antiquity for the purposes of this Act, which has been in existence for not less than one hundred years and (ii) any manuscript, record or other document which is of scientific, historical literary or aesthetic value and which has been in existence for not less than seventy-five years.

[Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, (52 of 1972), s. 2(a)]