Life-sized reliefs of camels and equids: the Camel Site in Saudi Arabia

The Camel Site (near Sakaka in al-Jawf Province, Saudi Arabia) is a unique rock‐art site in the Near East and its life-sized animal reliefs are amongst the oldest in the world. It was first recorded in 2016, after it was reported by Hussain Al‐Khalifah, the former local representative of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) in the Jawf region (Charloux et al., 2018). Since 2018, the site is being studied by an international Saudi‐French-German team co-directed by Dr G. Charloux, Dr M. Guagnin and Dr A. AlSharekh, assisted by A. al-Qaeed and Y. al-Ali, representatives of the Ministry of Culture, as part of an agreement between the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (today Heritage Commission of the Saudi Ministry of Culture) and the French National Center for Scientific Research (with financial support from CNRS, the UMR 8167, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Dahlem Research School at Freie Universität Berlin, the French Labex Resmed from Sorbonne University (ANR-10-LABX-72, ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02), the Cefrepa and by a grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation (AZ 43/Z/18))