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Pyramids at Giza as rendered by David Roberts (1846). The great antiquity of the Pyramids caused their true nature to become increasingly obscured. As the Egyptian scholar Abu Ja'far al-Idrisi (died 1251), the author of the oldest known extensive study of the Pyramids, puts it: "The nation that built it lay destroyed, it has no successor to carry the truth of its stories from father to son, as ...
The ancient Egyptians made a practice of preserving grain in years of plenty against years of scarcity. The climate of Egypt is very dry, grain could be stored in pits for a long time without discernible loss of quality. [1] Historically, a silo was a pit for storing grain. It is distinct from a granary, which is an above-ground structure.
An agadir (Tachelhit: ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ, plural: igudar or iguidar, "the wall" or "the fortified compound") is a fortified communal granary found in the Maghreb. [1] [2] In Morocco, agadirs are most commonly found in the regions of the High Atlas, the Anti-Atlas mountains, and the Draa Valley. [3] Some of them date back to the 10th century. [4]
The prosperity of most towns depended on agriculture. Called the "granary of the empire," North Africa was one of the largest exporters of grain in the empire, which was exported to other provinces, like Italy and Greece. Other crops included fruit, figs, grapes, and beans. By the 2nd century CE, olive oil rivaled cereals as an export item. [4]
A horreum (plural: horrea) was a type of public warehouse used during the ancient Roman period. Although the Latin term is often used to refer to granaries . By the end of the imperial period, the city of Rome had nearly 300 horrea to supply its demands. [ 1 ]
Granaries from an Iron Age Israelite fortress in the Negev, reconstructed at Derech Hadorot, Hecht Museum, Haifa. Storage pits are underground cists that were used historically to protect the seeds for the following year's crops, and to stop surplus food from being eaten by insects and rodents.
Andriake was the harbor of Myra in ancient times, but silted up later on. The main structure there surviving to the present day is a granary built during the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian (117–138 AD). Beside this granary is a large heap of Murex shells, evidence that Andriake had an ongoing operation to produce purple dye. [6]
A granary sitting on staddle stones at the Somerset Rural Life Museum. Staddle stones, or steddle stones, [a] were originally used as supporting bases for granaries, hayricks, game larders, etc. The staddle stones lifted the granaries above the ground, thereby protecting the stored grain from vermin and water seepage.