Petroglyph G27 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah

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Human: Natural Version. Petroglyph G27 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Unknown creature, possibly an Oryx or Ibex, etched into the rock. A likely Neolithic artifact from the 5th-4th Millennium BCE [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)].\nKhatm Al Melaha is a breathtaking archaeological site on the coast of the Oman Sea near Kalba in Sharjah, UAE. It's one of the largest rock art sites in the UAE. The area also features stone houses, a shell midden, stone tombs and other structures that suggest this site has been occupied from at least the early Holocene to the 19th century.\nOver 175 stones with petroglyphs were documented and nearly 400 motifs were identified. Every rock with an etched symbol 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 (accurate to within 1cm) were captured in just one day.\nAll the data was processed using Reality Capture and DStretch.