The Vatican has opened up its secret archive to the public for the first time but for six months only.
The exhibition, at the Capitoline Museum in Italy, will be welcoming visitors until September and showcases 100 documents from the church's archive.
A man looks at a scroll of the Trial of the Templars of France during an opening of Lux in Arcana, the Vatican Secret Archives reveals itself
One document on show is a letter from members of parliament asking the Pope to grant an annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to his then wife Catherine of Aragon in 1530.
The row eventually led to England splitting from the Catholic Church.
According to archivist Pier Paolo Piergentili the aim of the exhibition is to "physically show the sources of history, and make available the documents that have created history in Europe, and not only Europe".
Lux in Arcana: The Vatican Secret Archive Reveals Itself is now on at Rome.