Thesaurus results for ARTIFACTS

artifacts

noun

plural of artifact

as in fossils

an object made by humans and surviving from an earlier time period The site was full of Stone Age artifacts such as flint tools.

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as in mementos

a lingering indication of something from the past The spelling of "trough" is an artifact of the way it was originally pronounced.

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Recent Examples of artifacts After five months, DriveSavers recovered the contents of two of them, with artifacts of the damage still visible in certain images. —

Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 The artifacts appeared to belong to Barbadoes — while the shipwreck section pointed to the Swift. —

Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026 Among them is the demanding task of turning a pile of artifacts into a museum collection, which includes cataloging, researching, describing and photographing. —

Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026 The snorkelers and divers in your group can check out the wreck (usually marked with buoys in summer), though taking artifacts from this historic site is forbidden. —

Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026 During the visit, Harry and Meghan viewed artifacts that will be featured in the display, including well-wishing messages and illustrations honoring members of the public who were hailed as heroes for helping others during the attack. —

Helen Murphy, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026 Don't Miss Browse an impressive collection of artifacts and contemporary art at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, the largest museum of its kind this side of the Mississippi. —

Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026 Each installment dissects the making-of of a show, novel, painting, song, or other work through conversations with artists and their artifacts. —

Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026 It was inspired by the 1975-76 Freedom Train that traveled to all 48 contiguous states during the country’s bicentennial celebration, carrying artifacts representing the nation’s history. —

Linh Tat, Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026

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If there was once life on the red planet, sedimentary deposits in the coastal shelf might have preserved evidence of it, just as Earth's coastal sediments at times hold fossils from the continents, the researchers noted.

— Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2026
Trails thread through remnants of the same ancient sea that once also flowed over South Dakota's Badlands National Park—keep an eye out for fossils.

— Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026