LOUVRE MUSEUM, Collections

To help you avoid losing your orientation, I'll outline how the Louvre is organized. Oriental antiquities are located at level 0 of the Richelieu and Sully wings, where you can admire many objects and finds from the early world's civilizations, ranging from Mesopotamian populations such as Sumerians, Assyrians, and Babylonians to those of the Far East and Japan.

Levels 0 and 1 of the Sully wing present over fifty thousand Egyptian items, where you can learn everything about the life and the conception of afterlife during the age of the Pharaohs. In the exquisite Greek antiquity department at levels -1, 0, and 1 of the Denon and Sully wings, you're spoiled for choice among items from pre-classic Greece up to the end of the Roman Empire.

Italic and Etruscan art are located at level 0 of the Denon wing where you can admire sculptures, vases, sarcophagi, weapons, jewelry, and furnishings, coming mainly from tombs. Roman art can be found on floors 0 and 1 of the Denon and Sully wings in chronological order from the end of the Republic to the fall of the empire....