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ARCHAEOLATRY — [Noun] The worship of antiquity or excessive veneration of ancient customs and things. From archaeo- (from Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, "ancient")) + -latry (from Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, "service, worship")). Unlike "paleolatry" (which fixates on objects) or "traditionalism" (which merely clings to habit), archaeolatry is a devotional act, a secular liturgy performed before the altar of the past. It is the collector who treasures a Roman coin not for its value but for the weight of millennia in his palm, the scholar who pores over fragmentary texts as if they were sacred scripture, or the tourist who stands breathless before ruins, half-expecting the stones to speak—a quiet confession that the dead still hold us in thrall.