Nice ROBOTS ref there

Yeah, I'd wager this chamber predates the building on top of it by quite a bit, simply making use of it. Whether this site was sought out for the intent of a religious base of operations or this chamber was the first step in the rise of the religion well before the building on top was constructed is harder to tell.

Back in the old days, in Greece and Rome, there were said to be many places like this. Spiraling ramps down into the underworld realm of Hades.

It's interesting they'd put confiscated materials in there along with the originals of their own documents and letters. For that matter, it's interesting they kept confiscated materials at all. How many copies of the same pieces are in there? So many books.

You see a lot of giant libraries in fantasy fiction and stuff and I always wonder what would actually be in those books, where did they even come from? A lot of the time, I know there'd be lots of copies of books, copied by monks in the pre-printing-press days. But, how many books were authored to begin with? For things like fictional literature like we have today, only so much, but there are also records of events, member lists, birth and death records, and for merchants, there'd be so many records of sales and logs of material transfers.