In The Deadliest Lie , Miriam worried that her family was becoming insolvent, perhaps because her father had been gambling. So, she...

In “Deadly Confrontation,” we learn that the apothecary, Aspasia, having no children, had been a second mother to Katerina, the murdered...

In "Deadly Confrontation", Miriam visits Delia, Katerina’s best friend to find out more about why Katerina was murdered: Delia waved me...

True cinnamon is Ceylon soft bark cinnamon (also known as Cinnamomum verum ), which is made from the bark of a tree native to the islands...

Phlegm is the kind of mucus produced in the lower respiratory tract: the lungs and its airways. Thicker than the mucus produced in the...

“Deadly Confrontation,” set in first century CE Roman-occupied Alexandria, is about the consequences of rage sparked by a feeling of...

Aside from the agora, Alexandria’s central marketplace, Miriam could go to her local plaza for daily items such as produce and chickens....

The sewer system’s cavernous tunnels below the streets of Ancient Rome were built around 600 BCE of finely carved stones. Such structures...

The dormouse is grouped in a family that includes rats, squirrels, and gerbils. The edible dormouse (a.k.a. the fat dormouse of southern...

Miriam and Phoebe celebrate their special occasions together with lunch at “The Flamingo’s Tongue, the smoke-filled restaurant... that...