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Substance Painter Highlights. Petroglyph C5 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).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.


Al Mudaifi Petroglyph 16, Sharjah
A dense group of figures on four sides of these boulders. Ibex, wild ass, and different anthropomorphic figures. Very similar in design to the Neolithic carvings at Khatm al Melaha.Al Mudaifi is an archaeological site ... Read More
Petroglyph G17, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 1
DStretch Version, Petroglyph G17, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Syrian Wild Ass and two other carvings. likely Neolithic or earlier. [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)].Khatm Al Melaha ... Read More
Petroglyph H6, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 3
Natural Version, Petroglyph H6, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. One Arabian Oryx (right), one Nubian Ibex (left). Likely Neolithic or earlier. [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)].Khatm Al ... Read More