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Hungary's Oldest Library Battles Beetle Bookworms!
The New Indian Express Kollam
|July 14, 2025
Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history.
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The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey is a sprawling Benedictine monastery that is one of Hungary's oldest centers of learning and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 hand-bound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, t
This story is from the July 14, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kollam.
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