Inside the peristyle courtyard, scores of Nubian houseboys waved palm fronds to augment the sea breeze and chase away the flies. Along...

In Chapter 19 of The Deadliest Hate, a palace servant leads Miriam into a bustling anteroom where murals of the Battle of Actium decorate...

My tutor had taught me all about Caesarea’s two-tiered palace. Herod the Great built the Lower Palace on a promontory jutting into the...

In preparation for her first Shabbat in Caesarea and a visit to Judah’s brother’s home, Miriam goes with Phoebe to a balnea, a small,...

Miriam recalls Claudius’s lust for blood when, in The Deadliest Hate, she finds herself in the hypogeum, the region of cages and cells...

Claudius, the fourth Roman Emperor, ruled from 41 to 54 CE, during the first two books of the Miriam bat Isaac Mystery Series. In 41 CE,...

Miriam’s elderly friend Amram is flushed with fever and gasping for breath. Instead of bloodletting, Miriam recommends the opposite, that...

The captioned photograph essentially matches the painted image on an ancient Greek vase! Bloodletting, the withdrawal of blood from a...

Having withstood the ravages of storms and earthquakes for more than three hundred years, the lighthouse comforted me as I trailed behind...

I used to tell my middle school students that Isaac Newton was the Father of Modern Science. Today, of course, we view science as a...