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Tens of thousands of antique books in danger. They are being by beetles. The centuries-old books are being off the shelves of a library in a medieval abbey in Hungary. Pannonhalma Abbey was in the year 996. It four years older than the Kingdom of Hungary. One of the books in danger a complete Bible from the 13th century. There are also hundreds of manuscripts from before the invention of the printing press in the mid-15th century. Library staff are carefully the books and manuscripts in wooden boxes. The boxes are being in large plastic sacks. The oxygen has been from the sacks. After six weeks without oxygen, all of the beetles should dead.

The insect the priceless books is the drugstore beetle, also as the bread beetle. It usually feeds on dried foodstuff, like wheat, flour and spices. The bugs like to the gelatin and starch-based glue that are to make books. Library workers something was wrong when they found lots of dust on the bookshelves. The librarians then holes in the books. These were by the beetles chewing through the paper. The person in charge of getting rid of the beetles said: "We've never such a degree of infection before." She she felt a lot of responsibility for saving the books. She said if a book is , "a piece of culture has been lost".