Georg-Moritz Ebers (1837-1898) was a famous German Egyptologist and talented novelist. His works (Ebers left readers 17 historical novels: 5 about the European Middle Ages, the rest about Ancient Egypt) combine a scientifically based reproduction of the depicted era and a fascinating plot. The fourth volume of the Collected Works includes novels dedicated to Egypt of the Ptolemaic dynasty: “Sisters” ( 1880) - a novel about young Egyptian women whose fate was decided during the years of the reign of two kings - Philometra and Euergetes, and "Cleopatra" (1893) - the story of the legendary queen, the last representative of the Greco-Macedonian rulers.