The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological
Sites and Remains Act 1958 (ACT No. 24 of 1958) defines
antiquities as follows:
2.(b) “antiquity”
includes.—
(i) any coin, sculpture, manuscript, epigraph, or other
work of art of 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 thing 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;
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