When it is said that a treasure shines with its own light. This is how the titanic scenery of Trajan's Markets appears today, enhanced by the new artistic lighting system powered by sophisticated ...

Why was a market chosen to complete the monumental complex? There is some controversy about this, as we will see later. In principle, some historians believe it was because it was intended to be the ...

On a heavily trafficked street where few tourists pass in the heart of ancient Rome lies the entrance to one of the Eternal City's most extraordinary and overlooked monuments -- Trajan's Market.

Have book and pen, will travel. Trajan's Market in Rome View larger image Tim Baynes has recorded his impressions of more than 20 years of travel in Moleskine notebooks. Every other week The ...

Trajan’s Market in Rome. (Vincenzo Pinto/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) By Gail Sullivan. In 30 B.C., the Roman architect Vitruvius wrote down an ancient recipe for mortar that, ...