Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history.

Beetles have infiltrated a 1,000-year-old library in Hungary, jeopardizing tens of thousands of centuries-old books. The beetles are called drugstore beetles or bread beetles. The library is tentatively scheduled to be reopened next year. Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are in jeopardy of being destroyed due to a beetle infestation.

The abbey at Pannonhalma was founded in 996, four years before the establishment of the Hungarian Kingdom. Sitting upon a tall hill in northwestern Hungary, the abbey houses the country's oldest collection of books,