Ewer with phoenix. Stoneware with incised and carved decoration under celadon glaze (Yaozhou ware). China, Northern Song dynasty, 11th-12th c. Metropolitan Museum of Art [2971x3722]
Votive figurines found in a stone chest at the Temple Mayor in Mexico City. They actually predate the temple, some by over 1,000 years, and were made by the Mezcala culture (700 BC-650 AD). The Aztecs later collected the figurines as relics. [1400x2070]
A mammoth bone unearthed during the construction of the north tower of the Cathedral of St. Stephen in 1443, in Vienna, was thought to be the bone of a giant killed in the Great Flood. It was kept in the church as a relic and now resides at the University of Vienna [1772x1324]