About the origins of civilization. About people greedy for wars, dark pleasures and naked dancers. About brilliant artists who glorified the beauty of the Mediterranean. From Maurice Druon, who gave us the saga “Cursed Kings”. For the first time in Russian!

“This book is dedicated to the Mediterranean Sea, which for seven or ten millennia has remained an inexhaustible source of civilizations, still existing today. Here, on the shores of this incredibly fertile sea, knowledge, logic, epic poetry, writing, astronomy were born, metal processing and casting appeared, here man first realized his connection with the universe... The entire history of mankind, first on the scale of one continent, then on the entire planet, comes from here, from this mother’s womb, from this blue womb, for nowadays nothing on earth is decided or accomplished without looking at Europe, the true daughter of the Mediterranean.” Maurice Druon