If you've ever stared in dismay as your phone slips out of your grasp and into the gaping white throat of your toilet, don't worry – there's precedent dating back hundreds of years.

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

Archaeologists say medieval latrines are ‘almost always a treasure pit’, but even they are stunned to find a complete book – albeit in somewhat smelly circumstances

If you've ever stared in dismay as your phone slips out of your grasp and into the gaping white throat of your toilet, don't worry – there's precedent dating back hundreds of…