Herbs played a major part in Egyptian medicine. For example, Egyptians thought garlic aided endurance and therefore consumed large...

Emeralds, like all colored gemstones, are graded using the four Cs: color, clarity, cut, and carat weight. For the emerald, color is the...

In “The Mistress,” a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, a collection of my latest Miriam bat Isaac stories, Judah warns Miriam to have...

A sponge stick was a hygienic tool used by the ancient Romans. To clean it, the sponge was washed in a bucket with water and salt or...

In “Revenge”, a Miriam bat Isaac story in The Deadliest Deceptions, Phoebe asks Miriam about an ill sailor: “What was wrong with him?”...

The process of making Tyrian purple dye was long, difficult and expensive. Tens of thousands of tiny snails had to be found, their shells...

In “The Guest”, a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, Gershon explains to Miriam that he has an old friend staying with him, a man he once...

The last line of “The Guest,” one of the nine short stories in The Deadliest Deceptions, reads: “Closing his heavily lidded eyes, he slid...

Don’t let this model fool you. She did not pick this old rag off a rack at Walmart’s. This garment was unveiled in 2022 at the...

Lucia Antonia was wearing a peplos when she fell to her death. The peplos was a long tube with the top edge folded down about halfway, so...