palimpsest

The end result can evoke a palimpsest feel.

Each new power painted over its predecessors’ propaganda posters and insignia, leaving the province’s buildings a palimpsest of the war’s winners and losers.

After so many years, St. Mark’s Church is a palimpsest of memories for Mullins.

“They have this palimpsest of a billion years of history.”

“Just know that history is like a palimpsest manuscript. Know what that is?”