This bed frame, reassembled from fragments, is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gallery 168). You could expect a...

The earliest written record of magnification dates to the first century CE, when Seneca the Younger wrote: “Letters, however small and...

Within a 20-minute walk from Notre Dame Cathedral is the house of Nicolas Flamel, a wealthy fifteenth-century bookseller and alchemist....

Nero had his mother assassinated in 59 CE. Surviving accounts as to why Nero murdered his mother contradict themselves and border on the...

More than once in THE DEADLIEST HATE, Miriam mentions henket, a cheap Egyptian beer made from barley and emmer wheat. On one occasion,...

Little did I know to ask Miriam whether the sphinxes she passed on the Canopic Way were Greek or Egyptian. Only now do I see that it...

Miriam mentions emmer wheat several times in her novels. No wonder. The domesticated variety was a staple in the Egyptian diet, a primary...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE destroyed the Roman cities around the Bay of Naples but preserved their buildings and artefacts....

The judges for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award have selected my latest Miriam bat Isaac Mystery as a finalist in the mystery...

Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egypt. (See my blog of September 22, 2015.) Miriam mentions the importance of the cult in THE...