A cultural relic is something that has survived for a long time, often a part of something old that has remained when the rest of it has been destroyed.

文化遗迹是一些存留很长时间的东西，常常是其他部分已被毁掉而其中一部分得以保存的古老的东西。

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A cultural relic is something that has survived for a long time, often a part of something old that has remained when the rest of it has been destroyed.

文明遗址是一些存留很长工夫的东西，常常是其它部分已被毁掉而其中一部分得以保存的陈旧的东西。

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And was it really that same head, battered and worm-eaten, with an iron spike still rammed through the skull, that became a souvenir, a vulgar curiosity, a treasured relic and was finally in 1960 secretly laid to rest in the chapel of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where the young Cromwell briefly studied?

ECONOMIST: Oliver Cromwell