Kibotos in Greek means box. The hotel pictured here gets its name from its box-shaped waterfront. But Miriam was not referring to this...

It was on this day, August 7, in 1789 that Congress approved an act to establish and support lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public...

A chlamys is a cloak fastened with a brooch at the neck or shoulder and wrapped around the body like a cape. Ideal for riders, it was...

When Miriam encounters her old friend, Nathaniel be Ruben, in a café, he asks what brings her there: To take the time to consider how...

July 21 will mark the anniversary of one of the most infamous destructions in history. On that night in 356 B.C.E., an Ephesian arsonist...

Why a trident? Scholars disagree on the meaning of Poseidon’s trident: Because the sea is one of the three parts of the world (sea, land,...

In THE DEADLIEST FEVER, Miriam ventures once again into The Pegasus, a sleazy waterfront inn, to investigate the death of a sea captain....

Date palms have existed for at least 50 million years and have been a food staple of the Middle East for thousands of years. In Miriam’s...

There is a story about Julius Caesar being kidnapped by Cilician pirates almost 100 years before Miriam’s time. He thought the ransom...

In THE DEADLIEST SPORT, Miriam describes what it was like to enter the claustrophobic lanes of the Rhakotis quarter, the underbelly of...