Two world-class libraries launch online archive of ancient Scriptures

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CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Two of the world’s great libraries — the Vatican Library in Rome and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University — have scanned and loaded the first of 1.5 million pages of ancient Hebrew, Greek and early Christian manuscripts online Tuesday (Dec. 3).

The project brings rare and priceless religious and cultural collections to a global audience for the first time in history.