L'extravagante collection de Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller est une orgie froide où s'embrassent les pendentifs, les chaînes, les calebasses, les fibules, les brassards, les situles, les dentelles et les dents de scie, où les phallus d'argile ...

In this inviting picture book, Jean-Paul Barbier, world-renowned historian and founder of the Barbier-Mueller Museum, recounts the moving and glorious history of, among others, the people who built Babylon, the Benin Kingdom, the Pyramids ...

This guide provides a closer view of the pre-Hispanic world, analysing the origins and decline of the greatest ancient American civilisations.