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Petroglyph KM21-69 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah. A wild ass, and other indeterminate motifs. 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.


Petroglyph V4 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah.1
"Natural Version. Petroglyph V4 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Arabian Oryx (lower, with straight horns), geometric design (middle), and unidentified animal (above). Likely Neolithic 5th-4th Millennium BCE [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art ... Read More
Petroglyph G15 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 2
DStretch Version. Petroglyph G15 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Possible two Ibex and an indistinct animal. Difficult to see, there is a DStretch version with different details.Khatm Al Melaha is a spectacular archaeological site on ... Read More
Petroglyph G16, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 2
Natural Version. Petroglyph G16, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Abstract designs, circles and bars. Neolithic or earlier. These are common motifs in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock ... Read More