Designed to take the reader on a long journey around the world, this large-sized album embarks on a tour to the heart of one of the world's most beautiful museums. the Louvre Abu Dhabi - a major art museum with a universal calling. The book travels across civilizations through the prism of a hundred of the museum's most beautiful and stunning works of art, a tribute to humanity's artistic creation, from prehistoric times to the present day. The collection shines a spotlight o the works of Arab physicians and mathematicians, African blacksmiths, Chinese ceramists -- and many others -- proving that in spite of wars and age old rivalries, civilizations have always mingled and become enriched as a result.