150 shops over 5 floors 🤯 Read this ⤵️ 🔸 This is Trajan’s Market in Rome, defined by many the precursor of modern shopping malls today! 🔸 It featured 5 floors for a total of 150 shops! How incredible, if you think this was built in the 2nd century AD. That was the time when Rome reached its maximum expansion, with over 1 million inhabitants only in the city! 🔸 What were those shops selling? We don’t know exactly. If these shops were selling goods we’d expect to find big ramps for the carriag