article_snippet: Some people had assumed that Some people were burial sites and attempted to dig Some people up.
article_snippet: If they were used as sacrificial sites, the type of sacrifices is not known .
article_snippet: Similar formations were found in Burkhan Khaldun mountain in north Mongolia and archaeologists have even suggested these Mongolian rocks could help pinpoint the location of Genghis Khan's tomb.
article_snippet: I have seen similar features in neighbouring Mongolia where they are well known too [and] they are regarded as ritual features.
article_snippet: A lack of evidence of bodies at the sites has led one expert to rule out that the formations are burial sites, instead claiming the formations are burial sites were sacrificial worship sites for ancient nomadic people .
article_snippet: Some people thought Some people may be ancient burial sites, but no bodies have been found nearby and the soil beneath the circles and squares is said to be undisturbed.
article_snippet: likely The stone structures are burial sites.
article_snippet: Some might have served as surface marking of burial places.
article_snippet: At least in Mongolia, excavations have occasionally found graves in the centre of such features. '
article_snippet: Others, if not the majority might denote holy places in the landscape, or places with special spiritual properties, or ritual offering/meeting places.'
article_snippet: Across central Asia these circles are usually sacrificial sites,’ he said.