The Romans didn’t number the days of the month. Instead they identified three special days: The first day of the month, the Calends; the...

This painting in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples of a richly dressed Pompeian woman bringing a stylus to her mouth and...

I looked at Ephesus, a major center of commerce in Asia Minor, as a possible city of importance for THE DEADLIEST FEVER. Because Paul...

Rabies has been with us since earliest times. Aristotle noted that rabies affects dogs and any animal the afflicted dog bites. And it has...

Sooner rather than later, viewers of the cult statues of Artemis ask what are those bumps on her chest? A cult statue is one constructed...

THE DEADLIEST FEVER—just released by Black Opal Books—is about a jewel heist, an audacious theft from the Temple of Artemis, just outside...

Last August, when I posted the blog “A Father’s Dream” referring to Isaac’s hope that his son Binyamin would become a scholar like Hero...

Miriam was able to identify the culprit in THE DEADLIEST FEVER because he’d been bitten by a rabid bat. Even so, she was lucky. The...

In THE DEADLIEST SPORT, Gershon greets Miriam with “I hope you had an inspiring Sukkot (Feast of Booths).” Sukkot is a week-long biblical...

When I saw Kreskin’s review of THE DEADLIEST LIE, I wanted to ask whether he predicted who the thief was before opening the book. He is...