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)