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“Petroglyph V16 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Nubian Ibex (left), but perhaps a gazelle, and perhaps another one to the right. The line underneath the animals is a common element. 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 V22 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 2
Natural Version with Paint, Petroglyph V22 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. 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 an ... Read More
Petroglyph KM21-42 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah
Petroglyph KM21-42 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah. animals and other figures on two boulders. Carvings still under investigation.Probably Neolithic or earlier. These are common motifs in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. Many similar motifs are ... 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