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Natural Version with Paint. Petroglyph G12 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Unknown animal, difficult to document. Likely Neolithic 5th-4th Millennium BCE [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.


Petroglyph V19 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 3
Natural Version, Petroglyph V19 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Nubian Ibex. 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 on ... Read More
Petroglyph H11-2021 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah
Petroglyph H11-2021 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah. Five wild asses. Carvings still under investigation. After initial documentation in 2019, the site was revisited in 2021, with many new discoveries, and the additional documentation of some of ... Read More
Petroglyph G18, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 2
Natural Version, Petroglyph G18, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Perhaps a snake. 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