Idols (from the Greek eidolon , image) constitutes the first attempt to compare East and West, with works portraying the human body from 4000 to 2000 BC; the area considered is an immense part of the Old World, and demonstrates how distant regions of southern Eurasia shared many common factors, albeit with local variants. The journey takes the visitor through a vast geographic area that extends from the Iberian peninsula to the Indus valley, from the shores of the Atlantic to the confines of the Far East. The period in question, 4000-2000 BC, is a time of great transition. Farming villages from the late Neolithic were evolving into the urban societies of the Bronze Age. Authorities of family and tribe clans gave way to centralised power and complex societies. Metaphysical notions were visually translated into anthropomorphic statues, the "idols", that start from the female figures of the Neolithic, naked and sumptuously prosperous, and from the so-called "Mother Goddess", up to circa 3300- 3000 BC during the age of the first cities and the appearance of new abstract figures with clean, schematic volumes where the human body is reduced to a geometric shape with a pair of eyes (Eye Idols). With the advent of the third millennium BC, non-ambiguous, mortal humans appear: real men and women, no longer the personifications of divine principles. The clothes and accessories they wear are symbols of their status, their place in society.

Their identity is heightened by a dedicatory inscription that keeps their name for eternity. We see narrative scenes that describe wars and triumphs, hunting, religious ceremonies, banquets and feasts accompanied by music, statuettes of women and men in adoration, gods and heroes.