A 13th-century notebook pulled from a medieval toilet in Paderborn, Germany, still carries legible writing on its wax pages.

In a discovery that has surprised even seasoned archaeologists, a medieval wax notebook dating to the 13th or 14th century has been found perfectly preserved inside a latrine in Paderborn, Germany.

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Early music — the kind defined as being from the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque time periods — reminded Pamela Narbona Jerez of home. As a girl growing up in Santiago, Chile, she sang in the choir ...

Sebastian Jäger, "Wound Man" (c. 1580), ink and paint on parchment, painted in Vienna, Austria, held in UCLA's Louise M. Darling Medical Library, MS Benjamin 8, fol. IVv (photo by Jack Hartnell) Even ...

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