In The Deadliest Hate, Phoebe and Miriam go to the Forum in Caesarea: Buoyed along by the crowd, pressed against their sweaty bodies,...

Scythopolis became one of the textile centers of the Roman Empire, and the linen produced there was regarded as the finest (and most...

The Septuagint, also known as the Greek Old Testament, is an early translation of the Hebrew Bible into Koine Greek, the Greek spoken in...

Okay, so you have an idea for a story, even a McGuffin. Your premise may not be so outrageous as mine in “The Deal,” but you still have...

My first short story, “The Deal,” was published in The Dark Sire on Halloween, 2020. It is a medical horror story set in the near future...

Two kinds of fast-food restaurants served the ordinary folks in a Roman city: the kapeleion, from the Greek, a café or tavern, which...

Treat yourself to this anthology featuring the darkest criminals you’d never want to meet outside its pages. Miriam sets out to recover a...

Egypt loved Osiris because he was a wise and gentle king. He taught Egyptians law and order and led them away from savage practices like...

The main figures, Plato to the left and his student, Aristotle, to the right, represent two different schools of philosophy. Plato is...

The painting depicted here is of Michael Sendivogius demonstrating the transmutation of a base metal into gold before the King of Poland....