A map showing the Nile running through Nubia with 'Mariya' marked next to a settlement in the centre.

“How do you solve a problem like Marea?” Locating a site from the exhibition, ‘Alan Sorrell ‘Nubia”.

Why are some sites so hard to find on the map? A misidentification of a location visited by Alan Sorrell in 1962 offers some possibilities.

The two temples of ABu Simbel, from the front with the Great Temple in the rear right and the small temple front right. The Nile is to the left.

Exhibition Review: Alan Sorrell ‘Nubia’

A review of an interesting exhibition on Alan Sorrell's paintings of the Nubian rescue campaign in 1962.

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Alan Sorrell: Archaeological illustrator of Nubia and illustrator of archaeologists.

Famous Southend painter and archaeological illustrator Alan Sorrell, drew the monuments of Nubia and the campaign to save them from Lake Nasser.