and India. Their tribal self-designation was a word reconstructed as*arya-or*ārya-.The first of these is the form found in Iranian, as ultimately in the name ofIranitself (from Middle PersianĒrān [šahr],"[Land] of the Iranians," from the genitive plural ofĒr,"Iranian"). The ...
Among Aryans, Medes is a wide term which includes craftsmen like carpenters; iron smith etc who remained associated the medes in their profession of agriculture and cattle rearing the main profession of all tribes during the days of their migration. The fact that Meos of today are medes has ...
Caucasians by definition have their origins in the Caucasus mountain region just west of the Southern Caspian Sea, a handy launching point for a mythical migration of Aryans to Europe. Essential to the maintenance of this construct was the elaborate justification that the Aryans of the Avesta and...
Aryans, or more specifically Indo-Aryans, make their first notable appearance in history around 2000-1500 BC as invaders of Northern India. The Sanskrit Rig Veda, a collection of religious texts still revered by modern Hindus, records (often enigmatically) their gradual subjugation of the dark-s...