of a divine being, and writing was first placed in the hands of priests, libraries were attached to palaces and temples, as they would later be attached to cathedrals in the Middle... found refuge in Persia. In the middle of the sixth century Persia became the repository of Greek learning, which had practically disappeared in Europe. When the Arabs conquered... the Romans. Books were shipped to and from Rome to all parts of the world. Rome had a book market, the Argiletum. The Romans brought back enormous book collections from the East...