Petroglyph H24, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah

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DStretch Version, Petroglyph H24, Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Arabian Tahr, sun symbols, snakes, and other motifs are all common in southern Arabia, Oman, and the UAE. [Fossati 2019 Messages from the Past: Rock Art of the Al-Hajar Mountains (Oman)].\nKhatm Al Melaha is a major archaeological site on the coast of the Oman Sea near Kalba in Sharjah, UAE. It boasts one of the largest rock art sites in the UAE. The site also features stone houses, shell middens, stone tombs, and other notable features that date back to at least the early Holocene era and extend through the 19th century.\nOver 175 stones with petroglyphs were thoroughly documented, and nearly 400 motifs were accurately identified. Each rock bearing a glyph was assigned an ID number and a precise GPS coordinate. A single day yielded an impressive total of 25,455 terrestrial photographs, 5,244 drone photographs, 44 drone videos, and 182 pinpoint accurate GPS points (+/- 1cm).