This 2013 exhbition catalogue presents a selection of ancient artefacts from The al-Sabah Collection, most of them displayed for the first time. It illustrates 100 of the most beautiful and important ancient objects in the Collection, most never before reproduced in print. Covering a time span of some 4,000 years, from the Bronze Age up to the dawn of the Islamic era, ‘Splendors of the Ancient East’ presents some of the most beautiful objects in the Near East and beyond including Central and South Asia.