Petroglyph V24 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah

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Petroglyph V24 Khatm Al Melaha, Kalba, Sharjah. Syrian Wild Ass roams free here, a relic of the Neolithic era. Likely created between the 5th and 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 boasts one of the largest rock art collections in the UAE. The site features stone houses, a shell midden, stone tombs, and other structures that date back to at least the early Holocene period and extend up to the 19th century.\nResearchers have documented over 175 stones with petroglyphs and identified nearly 400 distinct motifs. Each rock with a glyph was assigned a unique ID number and GPS coordinate. In a single day, teams captured an impressive 25455 terrestrial photographs, 5244 drone photographs, 44 drone videos, and 182 precise GPS points (accurate to +/- 1cm) using Reality Capture technology.