The book popularly describes myths and legends that are most closely intertwined with the history of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Mesopotamia and Assyria. The author in a colorful highly artistic form tells about the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia; tells about the main milestones of their historical past, about how scientists were able to understand historical truth. The book is written in a fascinating style and is read with unrelenting interest from the first to the last page. Hippocrates, Solon, Plato, the "father of mathematics" Pythagoras, the "father of history" Herodotus - they all visited Ta-Kemet, or Black Earth, seeking to join the wisdom of millennia. The same Plato was separated, say, from the architect of the pyramid Imhotep twenty-four centuries.