Al Jassasiya's 900 'petroglyphs' include unique images of sailing ships and unusual cup shapes that remain a puzzle to experts who say their true meaning may be lost in the mists of time.
Some shoot out of the soft rock like reptiles bathing in the sun. Others are mysterious depressions resembling an ancient board game played all over the world. And a few are straight-up puzzling. On a desolate and windswept corner of Qatar’s northeastern coast, among the sand dunes of the barren desert, lies Al Jassasiya, the Gulf country’s largest and most important rock art site.
“We have no direct clues about the motifs used in Al Jassasiya,” he said. “In my opinion, they might have a ritual meaning and function, which is very old so that it cannot be explained ethnographically.” But how old? “We really do not know,” conceded Sakal, explaining that petroglyphs – and rock art, in general – are very challenging to date. “There are wild hypotheses about the age, ranging from Neolithic to late Islamic times,” he added.
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