Miriam would go to the agora, the central marketplace in Alexandria, just to see and be seen. She describes it for us in THE DEADLIEST...

A Roman cargo ship like the one Miriam and Phoebe took to Caesarea in THE DEADLIEST HATE (see my blog of April 14, 2015), the Thalia...

In THE DEADLIEST HATE, Miriam describes The Pegasus: The public room was virtually empty save for the ferocious flies. Strewn about the...

In The Deadliest Sport (Miriam’s third adventure, coming soon), Gershon, an aficionado of the games, blinks slowly for a moment before...

I neared an alley between the shell of an old slaughterhouse—no amount of sand or sawdust could blanket its stench—and an abandoned...

In THE DEADLIEST LIE, Miriam asks her father to tell her what he knows about the disappearance of the precious alchemical scrolls she’s...

While beer (see my blog of July 5, 2016), bread, and porridge, all made from emmer (now known as farro, a highly nutritious grain) were...

The ancient Egyptian beer, known as henket, was the most significant component of the diet of ancient Egyptians. Consumed by both adults...

Gershon ben Israel, a wine merchant Miriam first meets in The Deadliest Hate, is a dealer in Falernian wine, the wine that Julius Caesar...

In Miriam’s time, during the first century CE, Alexander the Great’s mausoleum was located in the center of Alexandria, at the junction...