#insulae — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: #AncientRome packed a million people into multistory apartment #buildings called "insulae," inventing mass urban #housing long before modern cities.

Built with #Roman #concrete and #brick, these blocks mixed shops on the ground floor with cramped rented rooms above – the higher you lived, the poorer you were. Life was loud, smoky, and occasionally dangerous, but the #insulae let ordinary people live in the heart of #Rome.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/history-and-humanities/history/rome-invented-apartments-insulae/

#apartments #history #architecture #ostia #engineering #archaeology