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Trajan's Forum in Rome, Italy, showing ancient brick ruins with arched walls and a central tower, surrounded by modern city buildings and trees.

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Trajan's Forum, Rome, designed by Apollodorus of Damascus, early 2nd century ad; one of the semicircular colonnaded exedrae.

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Trajan's Forum

Apollodorus of Damascus

Greek architect and engineer