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Petroglyph KM21-11 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah. Unusual animal figure. 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 from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman).”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.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.


Al Mudaifi Petroglyph 1, Sharjah
Petroglyph of human figure over a 4-lgged animal, perhaps a horse or a wild ass.Al Mudaifi is an archaeological site on a small hill on the north end of the town of Khor Fakkan on ... Read More
Petroglyph V2 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 3
Natural Version with Paint, Petroglyph V2 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Three Syrian Will Ass. Likely Neolithic or earlier. [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)].Khatm Al Melaha is ... Read More
Petroglyph N2 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 1
Natural Version, Petroglyph N2 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Two Syrian Wild Ass. Likely Neolithic or earlier. [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)].Khatm Al Melaha is on the ... Read More