VATICAN CITY — Dealing with bug infestations, normal wear and tear and even the occasional thief, keepers of the 15th-century Vatican Apostolic Library face an ever-challenging task. Their latest step ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican library began a project on Thursday to digitize thousands of historical manuscripts, dating from the origins of the Church to the 20th century, and make them ...

We are about to visit a place few people have seen firsthand: the Vatican Library, a vast collection of historic treasures beyond compare. It was founded over five centuries ago, when Europe was ...

Since 2010, the Vatican Apostolic Library has worked to digitize its sprawling collection of more than 80,000 manuscripts, making a trove of rare historical treasures freely accessible to anyone with ...

The Vatican Library, a repository for many of the world’s rarest books and documents, will make much of its material available electronically, International Business Machines Corp. said Monday. IBM ...

Researchers can use the library, but only the pope can borrow a book. ROME Sept.13, 2010— -- The magnificent Vatican Library, one of the oldest and richest in the world, was unveiled today after ...

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In its 500-year history, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (the Vatican Library) has only allowed 20 percent of its 80,000 plus manuscript collection to be studied. On top of that, it’s extremely ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) will continue its partnership with the Vatican Apostolic Library to preserve, manage and share the library's extensive collection of documents and texts. The ...

The Vatican library announced Monday that it will expand its use of Web3 technologies by awarding nontransferable NFTs (nonfungible tokens) to supporters of the manuscript collections. For the time ...

The Vatican's Apostolic Library has reopened to scholars following a three-year, $11.5 million renovation to install climate-controlled rooms for its precious manuscripts and state-of-the-art security ...