Libraries usually like bookworms - but not these ones

20/07/2025 5 min
Libraries usually like bookworms - but not these ones

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Episode Synopsis

Hungary's oldest library is fighting a beetle infestation. The creatures have been found in a section of the 1,000 year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey library, housing around a quarter of the abbey's 400,000 volumes. It's prompted workers to pull tens of thousands of centuries-old books from the shelves of the mediaeval abbey in an effort to save them.

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