Some, converted from storehouses, still have large iron rings in their high, vaulted ceilings where bails of corn, figs and carob were hung to dry in the breeze off the sea.
So when his massive $4m collection could no longer fit in the barns and storehouses of his Maryland farm, he donated the whole lot to Rutgers University.
We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require.
It produces so much food that government storehouses are overflowing with unsold grain, yet 250m-300m people do not have enough to eat.
They were uncovered by the wind and waves pounding the shore of one of Britain's most northerly and remote places.This is a lesser-known effect of the wild winter storms buffeting Britain's coastline rapid erosion of one of the world's great archaeological storehouses.
Canada, and especially its west, is one of the great storehouses of the commodities that the world needs in ever greater quantities something China has recently noticed.
First applied in banking, data mining uses a variety of algorithms to sift through storehouses of data in search of "noisy" patterns and relationships among the different silos of information.
You can still see them in the surrounding countryside, serving as barns or storehouses.
Left intact, on the other hand, the forests are sinks that withhold carbon from the atmosphere, mitigating the problem of man-made global warming; and they are rich storehouses of biodiversity, another global resource, as well.
Even where supermarkets and storehouses are well stocked, fuel is required to deliver goods the final mile they must travel to the people who need it most.
Notebooks with jotted comments, measurements and drawings have yielded to terabyte storehouses of genetic and chemical data.
