Depends. If you live past ten years old, you could expect to live to about 47. Still, some in the upper classes lived past 70 years of...

The Romans were familiar with the crocodiles inhabiting the Nile. But where could they get crocodile intestine? Oh, that was easy, well,...

Depends. If Pliny the Elder, the Roman philosopher who lived contemporaneously with Miriam, thought the eyelashes were natural—and who...

In Chapter 3 of The Deadliest Hate, having just written and re-written a letter to Judah, Miriam feels as though she’s just finished a...

In THE DEADLIEST LIE, Binyamin, Miriam’s twin brother, recalls when as a child, he’d sneak off to the games to see the gladiators: I...

Miriam does in THE DEADLIEST HATE when, on the way from Alexandria to Caesarea, she dines with Cousin Eli in one of the lavishly...

Eran, Judah’s half-brother, had a pair of priceless antique water jars similar to the one pictured here. His, about forty inches high,...

As the author of a mystery series, folks often ask me which mysteries are my favorites. Hard question. I’ve read mysteries my entire life...

I’ve blogged about the Roman baths (May 17, 2016) and the public urinals, for men anyway (December 13, 2016), so why not this? After all,...

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