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Thousand years old Deer Stones

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Thousand years old Deer Stones

No one knows for sure why the ancient inhabitants of Mongolia created and erected their standing stones, which are named for the carved depictions of what look like flying deer. There are around seven hundred of these deer stones in the world, and five hundred of them are in the Darkhat Valley, in northern Mongolia near the Siberian border. These stones are rooted in Shamanisn and are thought to have been set up around 1000 BC, and may mark the graves of important personages. Later inhabitants of the area likely reused them to mark their own burial mounds, and perhaps for other purposes.