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Trajan's Market is the name given in the early 20th century CE to a complex of buildings in the imperial fora of Rome constructed in 107-110 CE during the reign of Trajan. The complex included a covered market, small shop fronts and a residential...

Painting by Gustave Boulanger (c. 1882 CE) illustrating what an ancient Roman slave market auction may have looked like.

Trajan's Market in Rome, 107-110 CE. The complex was originally on three street levels and only a part was devoted to commercial purposes. The upper level included a covered shopping arcade whilst the lowest level alcoves set in the semicircular...

An 1873 oil on canvas painting, The Cotton Market, New Orleans (aka The Cotton Office), by Edgar Degas (1834-1917), the French impressionist painter. The scene shows a busy office with 13 people, including buyers, brokers, and office layabouts...

Slave market in Wall Street, New York City, c. 1730. Drawing published in A History of the American People (1902-1903), attributed to Harry Fenn. New York Public Library Digital Collections.

This is an artist's impression of how an ancient Greek or Roman agora or forum (market) may have looked like.

Madauros was a Numidian city ruled successively by African kings Syphax (r. c. 215-203 BCE) and Massinissa (r. 202-148 BCE). It became an important Roman colony in the Flavian period, and one of its notable residents was the Platonist philosopher...

Babylonian Marriage Market by Edwin Long, 1875 CE, Royal Holloway College, London.

Remains of Emperor Trajan's market in the ruins of the imperial forums.

A photograph of British glider planes landed near Arnhem in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in the Second World War (1939-45). The operation, carried out in September 1944, aimed to take several important bridges across the...