Ancient rock carvings found in Oman’s Hajar Al-Sinanat region
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Ancient rock carvings found in Oman’s Hajar Al-Sinanat region
Archaeologists in northern Oman have uncovered a rare prehistoric rock art site featuring a massive rock face covered in ancient carvings at Hajar Al-Sinanat in Al-Khaboura, North Al-Batinah Governorate. The carvings include animals, geometric symbols, and human figures created using a pecking technique, where the rock surface was repeatedly struck to form shapes and images. Oman’s Ministry of Heritage and Tourism has not yet dated the site, alt…
In Hajar Al Sinanat, in northern Oman, an extraordinary set of cave engravings has been discovered that offers an exceptional view of some of the oldest forms of visual communication of the Arabian Peninsula. Documented by the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism of Oman, the engravings include animals, anthropomorphic symbols and geometric motifs, carved directly into stone thousands of years ago, and suggest a complex symbolic life among the ancie…
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