On December 10, I posted a blog about the Khamseen winds, the hot winds that choke the Eastern Mediterranean during the spring, but then...

Miriam bat Isaac is the protagonist in my mystery series set in first-century CE Roman Egypt. Though fictive, she is modeled after what...

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So many of you when reading my books in the Miriam bat Isaac Mystery Series ask about Miriam’s brother Binyamin and whether Jews indeed...

In a tradition somewhat parallel to that of the Alexandrian alchemists (see my blog of August 20, 2015), the Chinese searched for a pill,...

One goal of alchemy has been to transmute base metals like copper into silver or gold. Alchemists judged the success of their operation...

The Khamseen winds, the hot winds that streak the hard blue desert sky with grayness, choke the Eastern Mediterranean during the spring...

Although there is no single definition for the genre known as mystery fiction, most agree that the stories are about the solving of a...

As her ship, the Orion, slides through the gateway and turns southeast, Miriam fastens her gaze on the Temple of Augustus and Roma:...

After five days at sea, Miriam arrives in Caesarea to trace an alchemical secret that has surfaced there: My doldrums were relieved… when...