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Amphipolis, The Forum of Trajan in Rome., Wikimedia Commons, June 20th 2014

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Public Spaces, roman empire, Rome, Society, Trajan, Urbanism

IssamBarhoumi, The Forum of Thuburbo Majus in Northern Tunisia., Wikimedia Commons, September 28th 2014

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, North Africa, Politics, roman empire, Society, Thuburbo Majus, Tunisia, Urbanism

ISMAILOVE, The Forum of Meninx in Tunisia., Wikimedia Commons, March 28 2013

Meninx was an important center for the production of purple dye. This forum likely played a significant role in the production and sale of such a…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Meninx, North Africa, Politics, roman empire, Society, Tunisia, Urbanism

Pradigue, The Forum of Bullia Regia in Tunisia, Wikimedia Commons

Photograph by Ann Morgan, used with permission., The Forum at Jerash (modern Jordan)

Although built in the late Roman Empire, the Forum at Jerash (modern Jordan), like the city itself, lived a remarkably long life. Just down the street…

Tags: forum, Jerash, Jordan, mosques, plaza

Living Late Antiquity team, The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 2009

A close-up of the tiling on the Dome of the Rock, Jeruaalem, from the Noble Sanctuary, the site of the Second Temple.

Douglas Boin, The Dome of the Rock and the Dome of the Chain, July 2009

To the left of this image is the Dome of the Rock, while on the right is the Dome of the Chain. The latter building is a Muslim prayer house…

Tags: Dome of the Chain, Dome of the Rock, Islam, Jerusalem, Prayer, Temple Mount, Umayyad

Simon Mannweiler, The Dome of the Rock, Wikimedia Commons, 11 December 2007

Exterior shot of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel.

Tags: Islam, Jerusalem, Temple Mount, Umayyad

The Constantinopolitan Hippodrome, George Eastman Museum, Wikimedia Commons, 1854

A photograph of the Hippodrome in Istanbul from the mid 19th century.

Bjorn Erik Pederson, The Column of the Goths, May 12th 2017

A 3rd century triumphal column celebrating victory over the Goths.