The Nicholson Museum at Sydney University is the second largest teaching collection of ancient artifacts in the world, certainly the biggest such collection in Australia. It is a stunning array and humbling in that there are so many objects from many ancient civilisations we will recognise and connect with, despite them having been created thousands of years ago.

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It seemed poetic on Saturday that, as I was working on the production of the Roman epoch and destruction of Vesuvius in 79AD by the forces of nature, when wild storms unleashed their full fury on Melbourne.

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