Un gigantesque projet de construction consiste à redonner vie au village de montagne d'Oberwies. Mais un meurtre menace de faire échouer ce projet. Les policiers Rosa Wilder et Manfred Kägi commencent à enquêter.

In the year 3000 BC an illegitimate son is born to Queen Lostris and the brave warrior Tanus. Her devoted eunuch Taita, a loyal servant, takes the baby boy and places him in a basket on the Nile. Five thousand years later, during our time, famous archaeologist Duraid al Simma and his wife Royan discover Queen Lostris's grave at the same spot, with ten scrolls inside i...