The term “Vatican” was utilized during the Roman Republic to refer to the Ager Vaticanus, a wetland area situated on the western side of the Tiber River, opposite Rome. This area is bordered ...

Among these oldest existing Bibles the following are the more important: 1. The Codex Vaticanus, dating from the first half of the fourth century and preserved in the Vatican Library. It ...

The OT of the most ancient surviving Christian Bible manuscripts - Codex Vaticanus (4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (4th century) and Codex Alexandrinus (5th century) - are Greek Septuagint text.

With an area of 49 hectares and a population of about 764, the Vatican city is the smallest sovereign state in the world both by area and by population.