antiquity vs artifact

antiquity and artifact both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
antiquity	Yes	No	No	No
artifact	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, artifact is a hypernym of antiquity; that is, artifact is a word with a broader meaning than antiquity:

Other hypernyms of antiquity include artefact.

antiquity (noun)	artifact (noun)
an artifact surviving from the past	a man-made object taken as a whole
extreme oldness
the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe