Thousand-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site being eaten away by 'barbaric' beetles
- Posted on July 14, 2025
- By The Daily Star
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Thousand-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site being eaten away by 'barbaric' beetles

Hungary’s oldest library is in a race to save its 100,000 books from being munched on by a scourge of paper-eating beetles. The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey is an enormous Benedictine monastery.