Why the Magi Terrified Herod: A Geopolitical Nativity Story

Mark Ziese

December 15, 2018

Exploring Israel-Palestine, History & Archaeology

Discover how the Magi’s arrival sparked a Cold War crisis in Jerusalem. Explore the historical reputation of these "king-makers" and why Herod feared them.

Mark Ziese

October 10, 2015

Exploring Turkey

She was a Man-Eater

Mark Ziese

October 10, 2015

Exploring Turkey

I might as well be hunting SheSquatch. Queen Shamiram of Assyria is nimble and elusive, yet enormously powerful. Like her sisters of blood-legend, Zenobia, Jezebel, or Cleopatra, it is hard to know where truth ends and fiction begins.