Moscow-Sana
Russian archaeologists have discovered more than 30 ancient tombs dating back to the Late Bronze Age in the southeastern Sayan in Buryatia.
"During excavations in the Okinsk region of Buryatia, Russian archaeologists discovered more than 30 ritual buildings and the oldest cemetery in the southeast Sayan dating back to the Late Bronze Age," RIA Novosti news agency quoted a statement from the press office of the Irkutsk National Research Technical University of Russia as saying. It was in the traditional burial pits, but above the ground, under a pile of stones surrounded by a circular wall, and next to the person buried were red and yellow stones, and that this discovery had a sacred meaning.
Archaeologists explained that the bones are in poor condition, so it is difficult to determine the gender of the deceased, as they discovered in this area 34 stone mounds “hollow tombs” each 4 to 6 meters in diameter, some of which were damaged as a result of the local residents’ use of pieces of their stones to build their homes.
These graves differ from those previously discovered in the Russian Lake Baikal region in that the head is oriented in a southeast direction, while similar graves found in the Khobsogol region in northern Mongolia had the head in a northwest direction.