The book tells about the events of the 1st century BC. Polish hysterics, based on scientific data, vividly and interestingly tells about the reign of the last kings from the Ptolemaic dynasty (Ptolemy XII Avlet and his daughter Cleopatra VII), about the nomination and death of prominent figures of Rome - Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, about the complex political and personal relations of Cleopatra with Caesar and Anthony and, finally, about the fall of Alexandria under the blows of the troops of Octavian Augustus and the death of the last Egyptian queen.