In The Deadliest Lie, Miriam and Binyamin’s father warns him not to volunteer as a gladiator: Once you sign a contract and take the oath,...

My life changed the day I encountered blabber-mouth Helen in the dairy aisle of our supermarket. “Hey, Sue,” the woman in red said. “I...

In “The Deal,” a wealthy elderly couple agree to get their brains transplanted into the bodies of recently deceased young adults so as to...

Four thousand miles long, the Silk Road began in China and continued through Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, then to Greece and...

In The Deadliest Lie, Miriam explains how her maids groomed her before seeing Judah: I remember asking the maids to take extra care with...

After defeating Carthage, Rome became the dominant power in the western Mediterranean. With access now to the Carthaginian silver mines...

The denarius (plural denarii) was the standard Roman silver coin during Miriam’s time, the first century CE. The word is derived from...

A thermopolium (plural thermopolia) is a Roman-style cookshop or fast-food café serving both hot and cold food. In the ancient...

Grains made up the bulk of most Romans' diet with wheat and barley being the most commonly used, especially to make bread and porridge....

Archeologists have found pots of unspoiled honey in Egyptian tombs thousands of years old. Three reasons account for honey’s unique...