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Preserving the Vatican's historic treasures

Published: February 15, 2013

A new digitisation project aims to preserve the manuscripts contained in the Vatican Library - more than 80,000 in number - and make it available online for wider study, says this video by EMCCorp.

http://www.ucanews.com/news/preserving-the-vaticans-historic-treasures/67338


 

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