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“Natural Version, Petroglyph V2, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Three Syrian Wild Ass and 1-2 unidentifialble figures below. Neolithic or earlier. These are common motifs in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. [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 with one or two anthropomorphic figures heavily pecked into the stone, and a four-legged figure, perhaps an Ibex, lightly scratched on the rock at a different time. Still under study.Al Mudaifi is an archaeological ... Read More
Petroglyph J20-2021 Khatm Al Melaha, Sharjah. Syrian Wild Ass on right. J19, Hyena, on leftAfter initial documentation in 2019, the site was revisited in 2021, with many new discoveries, and the additional documentation of some ... Read More
Natural Version. Petroglyph G27 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Unknown animal, perhaps and Oryx or Ibex. Likely Neolithic 5th-4th Millennium BCE [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)].Khatm Al ... Read More