Camel Carving Site

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30/09/2021
Landmarks and Monuments

The Camel Carving Site is an archaeological site of prominent rock drawings, located on the facade of a mountain in the city of Sikaka, the administrative capital of al-Jawf Province in the north of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The site was discovered by a joint Saudi-French scientific team in 2016.

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Sources

Ministry of Tourism.

 Heritage Commission.

 Saudi Geological Survey.


 

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Name
Camel Carving Site.
Classification of the site
Archaeological site of prominent rock drawings.
Date of site exploration
2016.
Geographical location
Sikaka city, the administrative capital of al-Jawf Province.
Site characteristics
The age of the inscriptions on the site is estimated to date back to more than 5,200 years BC.
One of the prominent rock art sites in the Arabian Peninsula.
Contents of the site
Seventeen camel rock carvings.
It contains twenty-one carvings.

Table of contents

Info Box

Name
Camel Carving Site.
Classification of the site
Archaeological site of prominent rock drawings.
Date of site exploration
2016.
Geographical location
Sikaka city, the administrative capital of al-Jawf Province.
Site characteristics
The age of the inscriptions on the site is estimated to date back to more than 5,200 years BC.
One of the prominent rock art sites in the Arabian Peninsula.
Contents of the site
Seventeen camel rock carvings.
It contains twenty-one carvings.