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Petroglyph KM21-46 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah. poorly defined animal, other indeterminate figures. 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 22, Sharjah
A number of poorly preserved motifs. Still under study.Al Mudaifi is an archaeological site on a small hill on the north end of the town of Khor Fakkan on the east coast of Sharjah, UAE. ... Read More
Sur Kalba Petroglyph 2, Sharjah
A boulder with an anthropomorphic figure. Still under study.Sur Kalba is a likely Bronze Age site in a developed area of the city of Kalba on the eastern shore of Sharjah, UAE. It consists of ... Read More
Petroglyph KM21-65 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah
Petroglyph KM21-65 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah. An indeterminate animal. 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 ... Read More