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Cleaning warning labels off a now-empty tin so that I can re-use it. "Right, that was easy, just need to wipe off the adhesive residue with some acetone and I'm done." Off comes the adhesive. Off comes the paint covering the next layer of warning labels. This is like Rubbish Archaeology.

Like this but the content's much less interesting.

X-Ray Imaging uncovers hidden ancient text in medieval manuscriptwww.medievalists.net This week researchers in California are scanning a medieval manuscript to help uncover a medical text by the ancient physician Galen, which was scrapped off and replaced in the eleventh-century.