The Deadliest Fever, the fourth book in the Miriam bat Isaac Series, is about recovering the gems stolen from the mantle that clothes the...

This 1575 Italian fresco shows Miriam on the horns of a dilemma: Should she marry the man her tyrannical father has picked out for her or...

In “The Guest”, a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, Miriam is moved by the gulls as she and her new friend rush to the harbor to stop a...

The word pergola comes from the Latin word pergola, meaning a projecting eave. Now it refers to a booth-like structure often attached to...

Miriam tells Phoebe in “The Fire”, a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, that to verify Jacob’s alibi, she dropped in to see the Ephraim...

Since the first century BCE, calculations were performed with  calculi, the Latin word for pebbles. For a hundred years before Miriam’s...

On the upstairs landing of her Alexandria townhouse, twenty-eight-year-old Lucia Antonina tripped on the hem of her floaty peplos, a...

In “The Recollection”, a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, Phoebe needs to deliver papyrus scrolls to the clerks in the morgue, and...

Snakes inspect things by flicking their tongue. It’s the way they bring scents from the air into their mouths where a specialized organ...

Paleontologists claim that the first domesticated dogs looked a lot like Basenjis. This breed of hunting dogs was already well...