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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 the more important petroglyphs. This rock was documented a second time in order to increase quality.Probably Neolithic or earlier. These are common motifs in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. Many similar motifs are found 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.


Petroglyph J6 1
Petroglyph J6, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. DStretch and Normal. Anthropomorphic figures in several styles, domestic goats, ibexes, and other motifs. All are common throughout the region. Khatm Al Melaha is a spectacular archaeological site ... Read More
Petroglyph KM21-32 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah.
Petroglyph KM21-32 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah. One Ibex. 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 Messages ... Read More
Sur Kalba Petroglyph 5, Sharjah
A boulder with three ovoid motifs, two have a dot in the ovoid. Still under study.Sur Kalba is a likely Bronze Age site in a developed area of the city of Kalba on the eastern ... Read More

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