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Petroglyph C5 (2021 verison) Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Nubian Ibex, Syrian Wild Ass, and human figures are depicted.Probably Neolithic or earlier. These are common motifs in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. An almost identical panel is found in plate 4.19 in Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman).After initial documentation in 2019, the site was revisited in 2021, with many new discoveries, and the additional documentation of some of the more important petroglyphs.Khatm Al Melaha is an archaeological site on the coast of the Oman Sea near Kalba in Sharjah, UAE. It is one of the largest rock art sites in the UAE. There are also stone houses, a shell midden, stone tombs and other features that date this site has having occupations from at least the early Holocene to the 19th century.


Natural Petroglyph V7 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah 2
"Natural Version. Petroglyph V7 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Nubian Ibex with Anthropomorphs. probably other images no longer visible. Likely Neolithic 5th-4th Millennium BCE [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar ... Read More
Petroglyph J22 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 2
Natural Version, Petroglyph J22 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Wild Ass, Oryx, anthropomorph, and other designs. Likely Neolithic or earlier. [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)].Khatm Al Melaha ... Read More
Petroglyph LU15 – 2, Luluya, Sharjah
Description: Petroglyph from the archaeological site of Luluya, Sharjah, UAE. Luluya is in a hill on the north end of the town of Khor Fakkan on the east coast of Sharjah. It consists of a large ... Read More