A triclinium is a Roman dining room named for its three couches. Each couch accommodates three diners who use the throw pillows to...

ONE WOMAN'S RETIREMENT CAREER MIXES FICTION, SCIENCE, ANCIENT TIMES June Trop Zuckerman’s retirement job can seem a complete change from...

Miriam visited the subterranean crypt beneath the Serapeum: We passed cavernous chambers of bare stone breathing out their ancient must,...

Ptolemy the First created the god Serapis during the third century BCE to unite the Alexandrian Greeks and Egyptians in worship. (The...

In my blog of August 23, 2016, Miriam brought us to the agora. She mentioned the reek of salted meat, but it’s only in THE DEADLIEST...

Miriam gets a panoramic view of the lake when, in THE DEADLIEST LIE, she climbs the steep, one-hundred-step spiraling marble staircase in...

In his 1957 hit song, All Shook Up, Elvis Presley speaks of his girlfriend as his “buttercup.” I guess his songwriters didn’t know that...

“He left without saying anything further, but the way he looked at me as he did, and the way he looked at Molly, gave me the greatest...

Many Roman men wore toupees of human hair to cover their baldness. Unlike a woman’s wig, toupees were made to look natural. Judah’s...

There are twelve features in this stereotypical image that are commonly associated with a pirate. Take a minute and see whether you can...