Vatican City: Centuries after medieval monks meticulously copied sacred texts by hand to preserve the wisdom of the ancient world, the Vatican and other Catholic institutions are once again at the forefront of knowledge preservation this time through artificial intelligence, robotics, and advanced digitization.

The Vatican Apostolic Library, founded in the 15th century, has embarked on one of the most ambitious cultural preservation projects in the world the digitization of around 80,000 handwritten manuscripts. These are part of a vast collection that includes 2 million printed books, 100,000 archival documents, and hundreds of thousands of coins, medals, and artworks, many of which date back over a millennium.

Timothy Janz, the Vatican Library’s Scriptor Graecus and former vice prefe

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