- Cleopatra, after the civil war that followed the assassination of Caesar, met with Marc Antony in Assyria where they planned the defense of Egypt against the Romans. Before leaving, Cleopatra entrusted her young daughter, Shila, to the rulers of Assyria to be brought up as their own. After Marc Antony's defeat and Cleopatra's death, Egypt, for the next twenty years, was torn apart and ruled by a youthful Pharaoh, Nemorat, with his despot Queen Mother, Tegi, who desired to unite both kingdoms and strengthen her son's rule by conquering Assyria and making Shila, now a beautiful woman, his queen.—Artemis-9
- Shila, Cleopatra's daughter was left in Assyria for safety, in care of the King and Queen of Assyria during the war with Rome but now 20 years later, unknown to her, her mother and father are dead. The young hypochondriatic Pharoah Nemorat, has been ruling Egypt with his mother queen Tigi, but now she feels it is time he should be married. Nemorat wanted to conquer Assyria but Tegi thought it would be a better idea if he married Shila because she thought it was about time he married. It would also legitimize his claim to the throne because of Shila's lineage and the combination of Egypt and Assyria would make a stronger united country. Shila finally agrees to marry Nemorat only if her people who are imprisoned by the Egyptians can go free. But she reacts in horror when told of her parents and brother's deaths. Resi, the Pharaoh's court doctor, gently consoles her. Over time Shila eventually falls in love with Resi and when Nemorat dies, in his dying breath he accuses Shila of killing him and tells her he wants her to be buried alive with him in his newly completed pyramid. But Resi is already making plans to help her.—bcarruthers-76500
- After the death of Antony and Cleopatra Egypt is ruled by the young tyrant Pharaoh Nemorat and his mother Tegi. Cleopatra has left a surviving daughter, Shila, raised by the king and queen of Assyria. When Nemorat conquers Assyria, Shila is brought to the Egyptian court; and, at the instigation of Nemorat's mother, marries the pharaoh. The pharaoh, who is a mentally disturbed hypochondriac, has a good and wise physician, Resi, who falls in love with Shila, and encourages her to go on living despite the killing of her Assyrian surrogate parents by Tegi. When Shila spurns an amorous Nemorat one evening, he goes into a violent rage causing him to faint. He is then poisoned by his ambitious chief overseer Kefren and his mistress. Shila is convicted of the murder and is sentenced to be buried alive with Nemorat. Resi comes up with a plan to save Shila by having her take a drug, which causes her to lapse into a temporary coma, while he bribes the chief of the "house of death" to allow him to take Shila away in the dead of night. The chief of the house of death proves treacherous by not allowing Resi to rescue Shila, but in a struggle with Resi he is killed. Resi, though, is seriously wounded and is rescued and tended by his faithful servant, but he does not recover before Shila is entombed with Pharaoh Nemorat. The common people, who have benefited from Resi's kind care of them, aid him in capturing the royal architect, who helps Resi and his associates, greedy tomb robbers, to break into Nemorat's tomb and save Shila. Shila and Resi ride off in freedom while Kefren gets his just desserts when Tegi finds out that he really poisoned Nemorat: he is killed by the palace guards.
This film was probably intended to be a story about a New Kingdom (1570-1070 BC) pharaoh rather than a Ptolemaic one (30 BC). The costumes are New Kingdom, and the nation of Assyria was destroyed in the 6th century BC before the rise of Rome. The English translation of the Italian title is "Sepulchre of the King."
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