

Watch for the release of THE DEADLIEST HATE
The Deadliest Hate is set primarily in first-century CE Caesarea where Miriam is invited to attend first a reception at the Upper Palace...


A Novel and a Skirt
What’s the difference between a novel and a skirt? Not as much as you’d think. Both are subject to the fads and fancies of the...


The authors of the Pampered Pets Mystery Series are June's guest bloggers this week
The past few years have been incredibly busy for us. Busy in a good way, but busy nonetheless and 2015 is shaping up to be just as...


Miriam bat Isaac Discovers the Philosopher’s Stone
The moonwort known as “the white herb of the mountain” or Boytrychium lunaria is an extremely rare little succulent fern Maria Hebrea...


Is there a new Great Library of Alexandria?
No, but there’s a great New Library. Opened in 2002 and built to hold eight million books, the New Library of Alexandria, located near...


Alexandria Also Had a “Daughter” Library
The daughter library, built by the Ptolemies to accommodate the surplus of volumes from the Great Library, was housed in the precinct of...


ARE YOU READY FOR A MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE?
In THE DEADLIEST HATE, Miriam sails from Alexandria to Caesarea on a corbita, a wide-bellied, basket-shaped Roman cargo ship, to trace...


CLEOPATRA WASN’T THE ONLY ONE WITH AN EGYPTIAN COBRA
Plutarch, whose life coincided roughly with Miriam bat Isaac’s, wrote that the asp that killed Cleopatra and her handmaidens was likely...


How would YOU look if, like the first-century CE bronze ring key pictured here, you were recently un
These four views show its right-angled tip and thick pins. In addition to a personalized signet ring, Roman men, since they had no...


What jewelry did Roman men wear?
Adult male citizens, like Miriam’s father and brother, wore at the very least a personalized signet or seal ring like this first-century...