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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.”
Poorly preserved image on the upper left of the rock face. Still under study.Al Mudaifi is an archaeological site on a small hill on the north end of the town of Khor Fakkan on the ... Read More
DStretch Version with Paint. Petroglyph G15 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Possibly two Ibex and an indistinct animal. Difficult to seeKhatm Al Melaha is a spectacular archaeological site on the coast of the Oman Sea ... Read More
Petroglyph KM21-71 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah. Perhaps a gazelle. Carvings still under investigation.Probably Neolithic or earlier. These are common motifs in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. Many similar motifs are found in “Fossati 2019 ... Read More