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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)]...
Paleology
The study or knowledge of antiquities esp of prehistoric antiquities a discourse or treatise on antiquities archaeligology...
Art treasure
Art treasure, 'art treasure' means any human work of art, not being an antiquity, declared by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette, to be an art treasure for the purposes of this Act having regard to its artistic or aesthetic value. [Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972 (52 of 1972), s. 2(b) ]...
Epigraphy
Epigraphy, is the study of written matter recorded on hard and desirable materials and is prime tool in recovering much of first hand record of antiquity, Sanjay Kumar Manjul v. Chairman, UPSC, (2006) 8 SCC 42: (2006) 12 JT 1: (2006) 9 SCALE 232: (2006) 7 Supreme 304: (2006) 10 SRJ 386.Is the study and interpretation of ancient inscription; epigraphs collectively. It is an inscription on a building, statue or coin; a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme, Webster American Dictionary.Has been stated to be the study of written matter recorded on hard or durable materials and isthe prime tool in recovering much of the first-hand record of antiquity, New Encyclopaedia of Britannica....
find
find found find·ing vt 1 : to come upon accidentally or through effort [found a valuable antique in the old desk] [found a buyer for the property] 2 : to make a judicial determination regarding [found the testimony not credible] [found the defendant guilty] compare decide, hold vi : to make a judicial determination [the jury found in favor of the plaintiff] ...
Bullfight
a sport of great antiquity in which men torment and fight with a bull or bulls in an arena for public amusement still popular in Spain Portugal and Latin American In the Spanish version a matador kills the bull with a sword after the bull has been weakened by wounds from small barbed rods and after he has displayed courage and artistic skill in causing the bull to charge many times while he stands still or nearly still In some versions the bull is not killed Occasionally the matador is wounded or killed by the bull...
Calaveras skull
A human skull reported by Prof J D Whitney as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit lying below a bed of black lava in Calaveras County California It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found If it did it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type...
Colossus
A statue of gigantic size The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity as the Colossus of Nero in Rome the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes...
Doryphoros
A spear bearer a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity copies of which remain to us...
Egyptologer
One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt a student of Egyptology...
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