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Bronze Age

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A boulder with indeterminate designs. 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 a number of burial mounds or tombs, and a scattering of petroglyphs which appear to be representative of Neolithic and Bronze Age motifs


Petroglyph J2, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 1
Petroglyph J2, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. One Arabian Oryx and another unidentified animal. Neolithic or earlier. These are common motifs in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock ... Read More
Petroglyph J3, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah 1
Natural. Petroglyph J3, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. One human male and a poorly defined horned mammal. Neolithic or earlier. These are common motifs in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. [Fossati 2019 Messages from ... Read More
Petroglyph V5 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah.
"Natural Version. Petroglyph V5 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Human Figure with splayed toes and a hat or headdress. Likely Neolithic 5th-4th Millennium BCE [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar ... Read More