Learn how a notebook filled with handwritten notes survived inside a medieval latrine in Germany, and how the book could shed light on how merchants recorded transactions, reminders, and daily life ...

Dropping your phone in the toilet feels catastrophic—but 800 years ago, a merchant in Germany did the same thing with a tiny wax notebook. Unlike our gadgets, however, the notebook survived the plunge ...

A medieval notebook believed to have belonged to a local merchant surfaced unscathed, miraculously, as a wet lump of dirt in a latrine, or toilet, in Paderborn, Germany. At first, the object that ...

Excavations were carried out in connection with the construction of a new administrative building in the city of Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia. During the work, archaeologists under the ...

Archaeologists have excavated a perfectly preserved wood-and-wax notebook in a leather satchel from a medieval latrine in Germany. The 10-page notebook, which features Latin cursive writing, was ...

In Paderborn, Germany, history has become a lot more real. Archaeologists found a wax notebook in a 13th-century latrine that was preserved in perfect condition. It's like "Stars, They're Like Us" for ...

Restorer Susanne Bretzel holds the wax notebook in her hands. Credit: LWL-Archaeology for Westphalia/E. Daood During the archaeological work linked to the construction of the new administrative ...

The excavations were carried out in connection with the construction of a new administrative building in Paderborn, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. During the work, archaeologists under ...