Experts are using high-tech methods to decipher the cursive Latin writing inside.

The writing in the booklet suggests it belonged to an upper-class merchant, who may have had a mishap while using the toilet ...

Archaeologists have discovered a very well preserved medieval notebook inside a German toilet! Scientists were surprised to find the notebook - made of leather, wood and wax - in such good condition.

An ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ notebook pulled from a late Middle Ages latrine was found alongside silk scraps believed to ...

Learn how a notebook filled with handwritten notes survived inside a medieval latrine in Germany, and how the book could shed ...

Garden ruin, Bosham Manor House, lancet window to northern half of west wall. External view looking east. Credit: D. Gould et al. Recent archaeological findings have shed new light on a long-standing ...

Those who make a great show of being religiously pure often lead lives that are secretly very dirty -- or at least so it was in biblical times. Recent bioarchaeological findings at the ancient Dead ...

What was once a chute for both human and material waste in Jerusalem has now proven to be a store of new information about Christian migrants to the city, and the pathogens they brought with them.