When the custodians at the Vatican’s Secret Archives proudly claim “The history of the whole world is here,” they are not kidding.
The archives’ heavily laden shelves stretch 53 miles down dimly lighted corridors and are packed with papal correspondence dating to the 8th century and penned by the likes of Mary Queen of Scots and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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