The Roman method for amputation was the circular technique, first described by Aulus Cornelius Celsus (25 BCE-50 CE). Military surgeons...

Knowing that horse hooves can be used to make glue, Miriam found a valuable clue for solving the mystery in my new short story, “The...

I have a Miriam bat Isaac short story coming out soon. “The Brother” is about a scheme to steal a rare manuscript, but, alas, the...

Miriam was handed a cup like one of these in THE DEADLIEST HATE, when she attended a reception at the Upper Palace in Caesarea. Herod...

This bracelet recently sold for $67,000, primarily for its antique value. But if you were like Miriam’s friend, Phoebe, you might believe...

This kind of wineglass graced the table of dinner parties such as the one Miriam attended to meet Judah’s only living relative, his...

This bed frame, reassembled from fragments, is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gallery 168). You could expect a...

The earliest written record of magnification dates to the first century CE, when Seneca the Younger wrote: “Letters, however small and...

Within a 20-minute walk from Notre Dame Cathedral is the house of Nicolas Flamel, a wealthy fifteenth-century bookseller and alchemist....

Nero had his mother assassinated in 59 CE. Surviving accounts as to why Nero murdered his mother contradict themselves and border on the...