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Natural Version with Paint, Petroglyph C8 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah.The faint image of a four-legged animal. Date unknown. [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)].Khatm Al Melaha is a spectacular 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.


C22 DStretch (LYE) Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah
"DStretch LYE Version, Petroglyph C22, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Two Nubian Ibex lower, Syrian Wild Ass above, human on left. Neolithic or earlier. These are common motifs in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. ... Read More
Petroglyph J14 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 3
Natural Version, Petroglyph J14 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Two wild asses. Likely Neolithic or earlier. [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)].Khatm Al Melaha is an archaeological site ... Read More
Petroglyph V16 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. 1
"Petroglyph V16 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Nubian Ibex (left), but perhaps a gazelle, and perhaps another one to the right. The line underneath the animals is a common element. Likely Neolithic 5th-4th Millennium BCE ... Read More