Check out these early banks.
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People stored grains and other important belongings in these caves. (REUTERS/Abdelhak Balhaki) -
What are these old writings? They are laws about the granaries. (REUTERS/Abdelhak Balhak) -
The granaries are some of the first banks. (MarokkoErfahren/CC BY-SA 4.0) -
Some of the Berbers’ descendants still live in caves. (AP/Mosa’ab Elshamy) -
Others live in houses. These are in Azrou, Morocco. (AP/Mosa’ab Elshamy)
Berber people once carved out storage caves high up in rocks. There they kept wheat, dates, beans, silver, and gold. It was like a bank!
Read More: Berbers were tribes of people. They lived in the Sahara Desert in northern Africa. They traveled and traded with other tribes. Where could they store what they traded? They chiseled storage caves out of the red rocks of the Anti-Atlas Mountains. Each family had a compartment. It had a door with a lock. And the entire igoudar, or granary, was guarded day and night by a watchman. Ask Mom andor Dad what kinds of things can be stored at their bank. Read Genesis 41. It tells how Joseph stored up grain in Egypt before a famine came. He kept it in silos. These were like banks too.
