DARK SECRETS: Sveva gai | Vintage Vibes

Archaeologists working beneath a construction site in Paderborn, Germany, have pulled one of the most unexpectedly well-preserved medieval objects in recent memory from an 800-year-old latrine: a pocket-sized wax-and-wood notebook, still legible, still wrapped in its embossed leather case, still smelling, by all accounts, rather unpleasant. The 10-page notebook, which…