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From: bencoll...@tilde.pink (Ben Collver)
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Subject: Vatican archives
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 21:37:07 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Ben Collver - Sun, 29 Jan 2023 21:37 UTC

The Vatican archives have 53 miles of shelving. 35 thousand volumes of
catalogue. 12 centuries worth of documents. The archives' indexes are
not public and are only accessible to scholars once they are 75 years
old. By 2018, the archives had 180 terabytes (TB) of digital storage
capacity.

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