The Grand Market
Stalls under one roof: pots, cloth, bread and the news of the day.
The Grand Market takes a whole block of the old town. Its hall keeps the sun off the stalls, and the busiest days are the ones when new residents arrive.
Bronze Age traders ran on barter and on weights. Silver and grain were measured with stone weights, and an honest weight was a trader's good name.
Ever wonder?
How did people pay before coins?
With barley, and with silver by weight. In Mesopotamia a shekel was a weight of silver for many centuries before anyone stamped it into a coin.
Facts
- Open
- Every day
- Sells
- Pots, cloth, bread, tools