A famous historical novel by the outstanding English writer—one of the classics of world adventure literature, alongside Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe, the founder of the fantasy genre: Henry Rider Haggard. The novel was published in 1889.
The story takes place in ancient Egypt, during the reign of the Ptolemies. The novel tells of a plot by the high priests who decided to overthrow the hated Queen Cleopatra, who had handed Egypt over to Roman power.