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Painted. Petroglyph G8 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Nubian Ibex. 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 KM21-35 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah
Petroglyph KM21-35 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah. Syrian wild assess, a large oval, and other figures. Carvings still under investigation.Probably Neolithic or earlier. These are common motifs in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. Many similar ... Read More
Petroglyph V19 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 1
DStretch 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
Al Mudaifi Petroglyph 8, Sharjah
Petroglyph with one or two anthropomorphic figures heavily pecked into the stone, and a four-legged figure, perhaps an Ibex, lightly scratched on the rock at a different time. Still under study.Al Mudaifi is an archaeological ... Read More