In Ancient Rome, shaving was not only a passion, but it had a cultural significance. A young Roman’s first shave was a “coming into...

Miriam tells us in “The Revenge” how she and Phoebe celebrated the Vernal Equinox: We were in the Flamingo’s Tongue about to peruse the...

Ancient Greek and Roman texts make references to Indian cotton. It was initially described as a tree that grew wool; some ancient...

Autopsies to study anatomy were performed in Alexandria at least as early as the third century BCE. But the first report of a forensic...

In The Deadliest Lie, Miriam spots her brother sitting at a table behind a tankard of henket, steamy hunks of cardamom bread, and skewers...

How old is the torsion method? It is depicted on various Egyptian wall paintings, the earliest known example going back almost 5000...

The word forensics, the techniques used to detect the commission of a crime, is related to the word “forum” because the Romans tried...

The silkworm is actually the larva (caterpillar) stage of a moth. So, that makes the silkworm an insect. It spins itself in a silk cocoon...

In The Deadliest Lie, Miriam eavesdropped on Binyamin when his sponsor, the illustrious retired gladiator Sergius, made plans for the...

In “The Dagger,” a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, Miriam’s deputy Phoebe and Professor Jason, the physician from the medical school,...