26 авг. 2022 г. · The archive is comprised of all papal documents going back to the 1200s, it contains letters, books, gifts given to the pontiff, documents from ...

15 окт. 2023 г. · Until 2018, the archive was officially called "Archivum Secretum Vaticanum" (ASV). This was usually translated as the Vatican Secret Archives.

22 июн. 2012 г. · The unfortunately named secret archive contains mostly state papers. Qualified scholars are also invited to apply for access to the archives.

28 янв. 2023 г. · The Vatican archives have 53 miles of shelving. 35 thousand volumes of catalogue. 12 centuries worth of documents. The archives' indexes are not public.

24 июл. 2021 г. · It's not to hide. It is to protect very valuable and rare books. It's actually being digitized to make it more available https://digi.vatlib ...

4 апр. 2024 г. · I've always wondered what crazy things the Vatican has down there. Granted whenever I look up the topic it's always heretical stuff so I ignore it.

7 дек. 2019 г. · There's nothing really exciting or secret there and it's tended to by archivists, librarians, the occasional university scholar or antiquarian.

28 янв. 2023 г. · The Vatican archives have 53 miles of shelving. 35 thousand volumes of catalogue. 12 centuries worth of documents. The archives' indexes are not public.

It consists of over 600 archival fonds and is stored on over 85 linear kilometres of shelving, some of which is in the Bunker, a two-storey underground vault ...

16 авг. 2024 г. · My theory is that it has a bunch of records of historic events and treasures from the Roman Empire that they have kept locked up for various reasons.