Petroglyph G12 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah

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Human: Natural Version. Petroglyph G12 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Unseen creature, hard to record. Probably Neolithic 5th-4th Millennium BCE [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)]. Khatm Al Melaha is a stunning archaeological site on the coast of the Oman Sea near Kalba in Sharjah, UAE. It ranks among the largest rock art sites in the UAE. The site also features stone houses, a shell midden, stone tombs and other structures that indicate this location has been occupied from at least the early Holocene to the 19th century. Over 175 stones with petroglyphs were documented and nearly 400 motifs were identified. Each rock with a glyph was assigned an ID number and a GPS coordinate. In total, 25,455 terrestrial photographs, 5,244 drone photographs, 44 drone videos, and 182 GPS points (+/- 1cm) were captured in a single day. All of this data was processed in Reality Capture.